Not yet time for women to serve in infantry

Washington Post ^ | December 6, 2012 | Robert H. Scales

[little jeremiah]

Wonderful, and beautifully put, truth.

Thank you. Truth is beautiful.

[Little Bill]

To many people see war, as in Rambo movies a clean shot and die. They don’t see having chunks blown off your body, legs, arms, and feet.

Most vets think that we passed the test, which is true in manworld.

[Impy]

It either

A)Is time.

or

B)Will never be time.

Saying it’s not time “yet” doesn’t make any sense, what do they expect will change?

[AFPhys]

Skydancer:

I hope you take the time to read and reply to wardaddy’s post here. I would like you to engage his points.

I am sorry - I thought that I had pinged you to my reply#58 yesterday, but noticed just now that I failed to type your name correctly.

[wardaddy]

Great post LJ...really wonderful

we share some past history...quite a bit

[wardaddy]

I have my own Stephen Gaskin stories from here in middle TN

quite a character...and then some

[little jeremiah]

I was just giving the short, short version.....

I used to listen to him at the Family Dog, and then elsewhere (Park?) when the F.D. didn’t happen for some reason, maybe that’s when they tore it down. He didn’t sound half bad on 2 tabs of acid... In fact he looked sort of nice, all purple and everything.

Thank GOD those days are long gone.

Even the craziest stuff taught me and helped put me where I am today. Thankful I survived with at least some brain cells intact and not horrid diseases.

[wardaddy]

Chet Helms..RIP

fascinating LJ...truly

you are a bit earlier on the hippie trip timeline than I and at the geographic epicenter

though as a southerner..we had our moments

my last trip was here at aged 21 here:

http://archive.org/details/gd77-05-17.sbd.weiner.18554.sbeok.shnf

I too had an illustrious left leaning libertarian youth with tinges of romantic radical idiocy

but as you pointed out the really silly politically correct stuff was hardly known then...

not it is dogma universal for progressives

i mean the college radicals were coarse chauvinists with the girls by any measurement...Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rueben and particularly the Weathermen passed around women and their emotions no better than rock stars with groupies

like a modern day ergot malaise plague ..lol

one cannot underestimate the effect LSD had on all that mess...and I confess to taking my part...

even though I ditched the progressiveness ,..what little I ever liked really...once northern liberals started harping on my southerness like they were so much better than me I was pretty much over it all..a lesson learned living in Manhattan from 80-88

and I confess I also smoked marijuana pretty regular from 1971-83 and 90-91 and am still around it quite a bit though I haven't partaken in 21 years...I know a lot of people..almost all righties given where I live...who never quit