"I tell [the children] that if God needs Mommy to go ... then Mommy's going to have to go again and they're going to have to let me."
God did not "tell Mommy to go."
It is a society that has turned its back on God that allows a mother to go to war, when there are plenty of able-bodied men.
Mommy chose to go.
And last I looked, we are a free nation.
The feminists wanted "equal" opportunity in the military, which meant that we could no longer segregate duties to keep women out of combat roles. Unfortunately, none of the grownups who were supposed to be in charge had the balls to tell them to forget it.
Uh, excuse me, but what is a "single mother"? I believe in the old days (before political correctness was enshrined by Liberals) that less-flattering terms were used to describe out-of-wedlock mothers.
no more men-- feminism and political correctness neutered them...
If you want to argue for conscription, make a foursquare argument for conscription.
But spare us the melodramatic handwringing.
I tend to see women as equal and in some cases more equal but I still have a hard time with the idea of sending them into combat.
It's a little different for women without children but I'm still not thrilled with the actual combat role. My grandmother served in the WAVEs during WWII but she was a single unwed and childless woman.
It's not that men won't go; she VOLUNTEERED to do so. She CHOSE to have children without benefit of marriage; she chose to have them raised by her own mother; she chose to enlist. And this writer is trying to make us feel guilty for this woman's own choices?
"Of her three children, T.J. seemed to worry most... "He went from having one parent to having no parents, basically," Nishimura said, reflecting. "People have said, 'Thank you so much for your sacrifice.' But it's the children who have had more of a sacrifice.""
Well, if the children sacrificed, it was by Nishimura's own hand. She willingly signed up to serve and knew she could be deployed at a moments notice. I'm out on a limb betting she wasn't worried about the sacrifice when she was back stateside at a desk job, using her GI Bill monies, and cashing her paychecks at the PX. BOTTOMLINE: She needs to STFU.
Women (some) have been shrieking for decades that they want to be treated the same as men. And this one volunteered.
The underlying presumption seems to be that white males have always lived a life of ease and privilege and have been stingy about sharing it. This presumption ignores little things like wars, working conditions, competition, stress, suicide rates and premature death. If they want to live like men, they'd better be ready to pay the price.
Let's feel sorry for equal rights. /sarcasm
...if this woman doesn't want to go, why is she in the military? The Iraq war is older than four years isn't it?
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Good grief. This woman is incomprehensible.
I'm not judging the woman in question. She just did what our culture told her to do.
The real question is, how come the feminists insist that women should have an equal right to be in combat, and then turn around and condemn the war effort? Isn't this what they wanted: the right to be a single mom, the right to fight in the military?
Which raises the question, why would they want women to have the right to commit atrocities alongside men, which is the way leftists think of any just war we fight?
Sounds to me like she should not have freely chosen to enlist.
If women want equal rights, then they have equal responsibilities.
She should honor her commitment.
After 20 years in the military, I must admit that women do not belong in military combat forces!
"It is a society that has turned its back on God that allows a mother to go to war, when there are plenty of able-bodied men."
"Society" did not send this woman to Iraq, she did, when she chose to join the military. "Society" did not make her a single mother either, she did, when she agreed to hook up with a man to whom she was not married.
While you and the MSM are whining over the plight of this woman, she seems pretty strong about it, and hopefully she will bequeath some of the strength to her children.
Grow up!
Why did she join the military?