Does The Military Have The Nerve To Celebrate Mother's Day?

[Devildogg4ever]

Thought everyone should read this. The military and men in the military are always in a no win situation with this:------------
The face of war is never pretty, but this time war showed us images we have never seen before. We saw pictures of mothers being sent to Iraq to fight one of the cruelest regimes in the world.
What is the matter with the men of this country -- our political and military leaders -- that they acquiesce in the policy of sending mothers of infants out to fight Saddam Hussein? Are they the kind of man who, on hearing a noise at 2 a.m., would send his wife or daughter downstairs to confront an intruder?

Three young women were part of the maintenance crew that took a wrong turn and was ambushed by the Iraqis. Shoshana Johnson, fortunately, has been rescued, thanks to an Iraqi who told the Americans where the U.S. POWs were hidden.

In the joy of reconciliation, let's not forget the shame on our country that this single mother of a two-year-old baby was assigned to a position where she could be captured. She didn't volunteer to serve in combat; she volunteered to be an Army cook.

Jessica Lynch didn't volunteer for combat either. She wanted to be a kindergarten teacher and joined the Army because jobs were scarce in West Virginia.

Jessica was rescued by U.S. troops thanks to an Iraqi who was disgusted by the way his fellow Iraqis were slapping her around as a wounded prisoner. Even that Iraqi understood that a female POW is different from a male POW.

The third woman, Lori Piestewa of Arizona, didn't make it back alive. Her body was discovered by our troops in a shallow grave.

Lori was the single mother of a 4-year-old son and a 3-year-old daughter. Did the Iraqi threat to U.S. national security really require those two children to sacrifice their only parent?

The reason these sorry things have happened is that the men in our government and in our military lack the courage to stand down the feminists and repudiate their assault on family and motherhood.

Shoshana, Jessica and Lori were the victims of trickle-down feminism. The female officers (plus the militant feminists who would never serve in the military) demand the "career opportunities" of combat roles, and claim that a servicewoman is fully deployable six months after giving birth, while the privates get the really dangerous assignments.

The pictures of a terrified Shoshana being interrogated by her Iraqi captors and of Jessica carried on a stretcher show the toll on the mothers. How about the costs to the little ones left behind?

The war picture that graphically shows this side of the problem was of an apprehensive two-year-old, Teresa Garcia, hanging on for dear life to the legs of her mother, Army Captain Dorota Garcia, as she stood suited up with rifle and gear, ready to depart for Iraq from Fort Hood, Texas.

Cable television is giving us 24-hour-a-day front-line coverage of the war in Iraq from imbedded and non-imbedded journalists. Funny thing, one statistic is missing from their comprehensive reports.

How many mothers of infants and toddlers (among the 212,000 women in the U.S. military today) are over there in the Iraqi war? How many are single mothers, and how many are married mothers whose husbands are already serving in Iraq, leaving their children parentless at home?

How many are like Army Spc. Tamekia Lavalais, leaving behind her 21-month-old baby whose father is already in Iraq. She said she wouldn't have joined the Army "if I'd known this was going to happen."

The government won't give us the count on mothers, and reporters seem afraid to ask. Is it because that statistic is classified information that would be harmful to national security if the enemy knew it, or because that statistic would be harmful to the reputations of U.S. politicians and generals if the American public knew about our military's anti-motherhood policy?

Or is it because reporters are chicken in the face of the militant feminists? Bernard Goldberg tells in his best-selling book "Bias" that even tough Sam Donaldson "turns into a sniveling wimp when it comes to challenging feminists."

The politicians have brought this embarrassment on our nation because they allowed themselves to be henpecked by the militant feminists. The whole idea of men sending women, including mothers, out to fight the enemy is contrary to our belief in the importance of the family and motherhood and, furthermore, no one respects a man who would let a woman do his fighting for him.

Women serve our country admirably, both on the home front and in many positions in the U.S. Armed Forces. But there is no evidence in history for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to advance women's rights, promote national security, improve combat readiness, or win wars.

America is alone in this extraordinary social experimentation to send mothers to war. We hope, when the war is over, that the President and the military will change these shameful feminist policies.

[firstsgtmike]

I posted this in response to a similar question. I think my response also applies here. If Devildogg4ever will provide me with the source of the article he posted, I will ask them the same questions.

I believe the original question was: "Why Does U.s. Put Its Mothers Into Combat?"

Sometimes, the best way to answer a question is with another question, and I have a series of them. Come up with the answers, and you'll answer the original question.

1. Single parents. What is the percentage of male vs. female single parents in the American military? What are the absolute numbers.(That will define exactly what we are talking about.)

2. Is the term "single parent" restricted to custodial parents, or does it include the financial rights and obligations of a "supporting parent", with or without "joint custody"?

3. Should a Reservist with x+x civilian income paying child support be exempt from activation with their unit because of the reduced income?

4. In the "modern" armed forces, is there an entry in the service(person's) record book concerning children?

5. Should their be a distinction made due to the number of children, OR for the cause of the single parentage? (One chooses to be an unwed mother or father, or to be divorced, as opposed to being widowed.)

6. Should a distinction be made as to when, (before or after enlistment) the "single parent" distinction became effective.

7. Should we support discrimination for or against a "voluntary" grouping? (Every single parent except those widowed.)

8. Do we ignore the hard won lessons concerning unit cohesiveness, or do we take a well trained, well coordinated unit, and start exempting various catagories from deployment? Remember, this time around, all short-times were involuntarily extended.

9. What effect is it going to have on unit morale to know that X members of the unit, will pack us up, see us off, and will be waiting for us when we return?

10. Should an exemption from deployment be manditory or optional? Can an exempted person volunteer to go? What are the procedures for changing one's mind?

11. Should there be rank restrictions? Company Commander, Platoon leader, Platoon Sgt., Tank Commander, Squad Leader, Section Chief, etc?

12. Should these exemptions be considered when making promotions and assignments?(Human nature tells me that the "boss" will want to assign the best "man" for the job.)

13. Should there be two catagories of service personnel, deployable and non-deployable? Should they both be entitled to the same pay and benefits?

14. At what age of the child does the single parent lose their special status? How do they get reintegrated into the "regular" service?

15. Combat experience has always been a factor in officer and senior enlisted promotions. When does the "politically correct" start screaming "discrimination"?

16. What were the original arguments when the military was forced to accept single parents?

17. IF experience has shown that the arguments for enlisting single parents into the services are no longer valid, should single parents be barred from enlistment and discharged as soon as they earn "single parent" status. WHY NOT?

Work on these, and I'll think of some more, while we are trying to find the answer to the original question.

Mike Farrell
Cagayan de Oro
Philippines

[Devildogg4ever]

I got the source from this link. firstsgtmike, Thank You for letting me know I forgot to add it, I normally don't forget! Phyllis Schlafly column 4-30-03 http://www.eagleforum.org/column/200...03-04-30.shtml
Semper Fi!!