I remember a scene from a movie a long time ago "How The West was Won’ where a young Confederate soldier told his counterpart Yankee soldier the great truth of actual combat,
“Thar ain’t much glory in looking at a man with his guts hanging out!”
* * *The truth of this statement was even more brought out by a more recent movie in the first fifteen minutes or so of “Saving Private Ryan”
Many of our WWII soldiers that were actually on Omaha Beach long ago stated that the portrayal of those horrifying minutes was the most truthful to that actual combat that they had seen since actually being there themselves. Once again, men with their guts hanging out desperately trying to stuff their bleeding innards back into their mutilated bodies. I have no doubt whatever that such scenes are even now being repeated in our own time by our own young men when they are attacked by such terrible weapons as IED’s. And then such nightmarish scenes are repeated again and again by these young men as they try to deal with the added horror of PTSD!!
* * *I have no doubt that young American women have had to experience these types of things in combat also. But NOT as an actual policy of our military. I also have no doubt that many of our young women are as capable of combat as our young men, but that is NOT the real question here. It is NOT have they, of can they, but SHOULD they be deliberately placed into this kind of position?* * *
Is it not bad enough that men have to go through this kind of horror? Do we really want to place future (or God help us, present) wives and even mothers into this kind of thing?
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I will probably be castigated here from those on both side of the political spectrum. but this somewhat old fashioned left over 1960’s technological hippy says NO!!!!
“Thar ain’t much glory in looking at a man with his guts hanging out!”
* * *The truth of this statement was even more brought out by a more recent movie in the first fifteen minutes or so of “Saving Private Ryan”Many of our WWII soldiers that were actually on Omaha Beach long ago stated that the portrayal of those horrifying minutes was the most truthful to that actual combat that they had seen since actually being there themselves. Once again, men with their guts hanging out desperately trying to stuff their bleeding innards back into their mutilated bodies. I have no doubt whatever that such scenes are even now being repeated in our own time by our own young men when they are attacked by such terrible weapons as IED’s. And then such nightmarish scenes are repeated again and again by these young men as they try to deal with the added horror of PTSD!!
* * *I have no doubt that young American women have had to experience these types of things in combat also. But NOT as an actual policy of our military. I also have no doubt that many of our young women are as capable of combat as our young men, but that is NOT the real question here. It is NOT have they, of can they, but SHOULD they be deliberately placed into this kind of position?* * *Is it not bad enough that men have to go through this kind of horror? Do we really want to place future (or God help us, present) wives and even mothers into this kind of thing?
* * *I will probably be castigated here from those on both side of the political spectrum. but this somewhat old fashioned left over 1960’s technological hippy says NO!!!!
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