Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.
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In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valiantly. Yet there is a key difference between being in harm's way and reacting to enemy contact, and being in a direct combat operations role day in and day out. They are different scenarios that require different standards.
Women should come forward to protect other woman, as only a woman can understand the problems of another one.
Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk.
Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.
Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
When women participate in peace-making and peace-keeping, we are all safer and more secure.
It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
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