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Why are we sending Teenage Girls into the Battle Zone?
AP (Yahoo News) ^
Posted on 03/26/2003 9:07:50 AM PST by optik_b
Jessica Lynch is known for her smile, her laugh and for loving children so much that she wants to be a teacher. "That smile is all you ever see," Glenda Nelson, a close family friend, said Monday. "No matter what, she always had a smile on her face."
Lynch, who aspires to become a teacher, joined the Army to get an education and because it was one of the few opportunities available in a farming community with an unemployment rate of 15 percent — one of the highest in West Virginia.
Once she entered the service, Jesse, as she is known to family and friends, would often write letters, send e-mail and call home.
The young woman is "every mother's dream of a teenager daughter," said Lorene Cumbridge, a cousin.
TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: catholiclist; gulfwar2; iraq; iraqifreedom; jessicalynch; military; womenincombat
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To: skeeter
Was reading it, but thanks all the same.
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posted on
03/26/2003 9:12:11 AM PST
by
discostu
(I have not yet begun to drink)
To: optik_b
Why are we sending.............Thank the Democrats in general, X42, NOW and all the FEMI-NAZIS!
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posted on
03/26/2003 9:12:15 AM PST
by
PISANO
To: optik_b
Why are we sending any woman into the battle zone ????
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posted on
03/26/2003 9:12:22 AM PST
by
clamper1797
(Credo Quia Absurdum)
To: optik_b
So none of you guys have a problem with sending teenage girls into combat zones? Why not? We send teenage boys into combat zones.
To: optik_b
Are you for real?
Those who join the American military are well aware of the risks involved in choosing the profession of waging war.
If you can't take the heat, stay away from the fire.
Life itself, is not without risk.
God Bless America
To: optik_b
Any young man or woman going into the military know what the possibilities might be........going into military war action is just one of those possibilities.
Male or female.....they should be honored for their bravery!
oscharbob
To: optik_b
Was she drafted?
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posted on
03/26/2003 9:12:41 AM PST
by
Hillary's Lovely Legs
(May all of Saddam's virgins look like Helen Thomas)
To: optik_b
I have a problem with you questioning her intelligence. I rather doubt that she joined up not knowing the possible dangers. She is obviously and intelligent young woman with career goals. You are degrading her by suggesting that she was too ignorant to know what she may be in for.
To: fishtank
I think this is an example of what feminism has led to.
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posted on
03/26/2003 9:12:59 AM PST
by
optik_b
To: optik_b
I seriously doubt President Bush would like his daughters to be in the combat zone. I don't understand the military reason for having teenage girls sent into the combat zone.You are correct, we should just give them a paycheck, train them for combat, promote them into command positions... then never let them see combat because they might get hurt. < /sarcasm>
The purpose of the Army is to enforce the will of the US gov't, it is a noble and honorable profession. This 'teenage girl' knew well (better than most) what her job will entail, the risks and the dangers. She volunteered, and she took the oath. Now, are you proposing we give her special priviledges that we do not extend to teenage boys, simply because she is a girl?
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posted on
03/26/2003 9:13:10 AM PST
by
Hodar
(With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
To: optik_b
What struck me about both the women captured/killed from the 507th was their job titles - one was a cook and the other was a supply clerk. What the heck were they doing out in a convoy of mechanics in a war zone?
If their skills were actually applicable (like truck driver, mechanic, engineer, whatever) it would have made a little more sense, but I still don't understand the reason they were there in the first place. And I'd still be as confused even if they were men with those job descriptions.
LQ
To: optik_b
Because American teenage girls make better soldiers than the regulars of about 90% of the globe.
I'm damn proud of them, and think they do a hell of a job.
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posted on
03/26/2003 9:14:18 AM PST
by
Chancellor Palpatine
(Paleocons, the French and the UN - Excusing corrupt power mad dictators for decades)
To: LizardQueen
something tells me that they volunteered for an adventure....
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posted on
03/26/2003 9:14:22 AM PST
by
dennis1x
To: JennysCool
Unfortunately, the failure of the Government Education System, this girl and others like her are told:
It's her right to join the military;
She will get a
free education; and most importantly
The U.S. Military is not now nor will be at war!
Maybe now, through the tragedy of what has happened to this girl and many others like her, females but more importantly their families, will understand the actual cost of a free education!
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posted on
03/26/2003 9:14:44 AM PST
by
zerosix
To: elephant
" That goes with the terrritory, right?"
Actually, no. Most young kids joining are thinking about the job, training, benefits, etc., while not thinking that they might actually go into combat. Besides, talk of combat is a good thing to most in the Army, even though they would fear it if it came.
It will be interesting to hear how many girls got pregnant or had other excuses to stay behind, as happened in the first gulf war.
To: Non-Sequitur
Why not? We send teenage boys into combat zones.Call me a chauvinist but I don't have nearly as much problem with our brave young men going into the combat as our young girls.
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posted on
03/26/2003 9:15:05 AM PST
by
optik_b
To: optik_b
You can thank Clinton for that ....
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posted on
03/26/2003 9:15:08 AM PST
by
Centurion2000
(We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
To: optik_b
Any person in the miitary has a right to fight for their country. Cut the crap.
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posted on
03/26/2003 9:15:42 AM PST
by
Consort
To: homeschool mama
wild guess
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posted on
03/26/2003 9:15:47 AM PST
by
breakem
To: optik_b
>>Why are we sending Teenage Girls into the Battle Zone?<<
Our people are in the grip of many false ideas and delusions. A small amount of progress has been made since 1994, and we are gaining ground as I write this.
But there is no doubt that the fantasists and spinmeisters still have their hands around Lady Liberty's throat.
This poor girl is their victim, as was Kara Hultgren, and many others we will never know.
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