Dear Fellow Commodity,
The women in combat question brought
to mind the Virginia Slims cigarette slogan, of a few years
back,”You've come a long way, baby.” And, in one case, it
referred to a woman fighter pilot whose nickname was K C which stood
for Killer Chick!
When the Secretary of Defense???
ruled that women could be in combat there was great enthusiam (but
not from Code Pink). Much of the focus seemed to be on the “career”
opportunities (A Career in Killing!)
A few years ago at the annual Mayday
Parade down Bloomington Ave to Powderhorn Park , the late Myron
Fossum , a Veterans For Peace member, carried a sign which read:
NO GAYS IN THE MILITARY,
NO STRAIGHTS IN THE MILITARY,
NO WOMEN IN COMBAT,
NO MEN IN COMBAT,
NO PEOPLE IN THE MILITARY,
NO MILITARY IN THE PEOPLE.
The sign got great cheers and
applause.
Tom R. Dooley
St Paul MN
Tom,
ReplyDeleteYou realize the Right is the most upset about this? By the way, Bradley Manning was gay. Thank god for gays in the military. Maybe the next Bradley Manning will be a female.