Memorial Day

In the past, what we got on Memorial Day is speeches by officers and politicians.   But now on the Net, you can hear directly from the guys who served.

At the Washington Post site,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

on this solemn day,  the featured item on the “In the News” header-bar, top of the page at the left, is the subject  …“Women in Combat”.  (There is no comparable item for men.)  Click on it, and you reach the following article:

            Five myths about women in combat

            By Jane Blair

There are over three hundred and fifty comments, some of them remarkably detailed and well-informed, with quotes from personal combat experience and from published research.  Check it out.

=>  Flash update: 

The Post has caved.  “Women in Combat” has been removed from the front of the header bar, indeed removed altogether;  and an attempt has been made to hide the article:

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Fortunately, I happen to have saved the URL:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-women-in-combat/2011/05/25/AGAsavCH_allComments.html?ctab=all_&#comments

Read it before they send that too down the memory-hole.

For further examples of WaPo craven political-correctness, click here.

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The most ballyhooed recent American woman-in-combat (cover of Newsweek, movie deals, etc.)  was Jessica Lynch.  Her saga may be read here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Lynch

Once again, the Washington Post (henchsister of Newsweek) was at the forefront of the hoax.  (Pvt. Lynch, however, was entirely innocent of the spin that went on.)