First Girl Lost in War

The Sun ^ | 24 March 2003 | Will Barker

[hchutch]

Jerks...

If I said any more, I'd be given a lengthy time-out.

[LisaAnne]

What? What the .... are you talking about?

[laz17]

but rather need to be slaughtered without mercy.

You have said what I've wanted to say for several weeks, but didn't. And yes, that is the level of revulsion and outrage they manage to stir up in any moral person. I have come to see them as vermin rife with plague, and their plague is pure hatred of anything pure and good.

[annyokie]

Thank your sister for her service.

[bonesmccoy]

wasn't Bill Clinton the idiot who put American women in the position that this brave young woman was in?

[annyokie]

Nice of you to pipe up, dear.

[dandelion]

"Thank you, Frank! Women in Combat are nothing but a hazard to our otherwise brave boys!"

My my my. An American soldier dies, and YOU BASH OUR TROOPS. Go to hell.

WTF is it, that if one of our soldiers dies and we come here to mourn, it won't be two minutes before some POS hijacks the thread and turns it into a troop-bashing screed. I'm sick of it. I'm PROUD OF MY DAUGHTER and if you morons don't like it, take it somewhere else. An American soldier died tonight, and I don't care if they are man or woman, they died for us.

[El Gato]

A combat area is no place for women, in any capacity, at any time.

Tell that to all the nurses in the MASH units, and the soldiers, Marines and Airmen they saved. This female soldier was a supply clerk and was supposed to be out of immediate combat area, but she was still a soldier and undoubtedly knew how to use her M-16 or M-9. Hopefully, if she's gone, she took a few Iraqies with her. Being a "country girl" she may have known how to shoot before she ever joined the Army. One hopes so, because that would increase the chances of her taking a few of Saddam's minions with her.

[laz17]

Who knows what is happening to her and maybe she's been killed too by now

What worries me as the Battle of Baghdad approaches, as much as Iraqis using chemical weapons or worse, is that the POWs may be used as hostages... or worse, killed as part of scorched-earth. The death throes of Saddam's regime and the Ba'ath party are not going to be pretty, because nothing else about them is.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Notice the slant...she wasn't actually serious about going to war, she was just looking for a job, and that EE-VIL Dubya MURDERED HER!

How do you manage to read THAT into it? You need to get your glasses checked.

[CheneyChick]

Nice of you to pipe up, dear.

Wish I could say the same, dear.

[Paradox]

Poor girl, dead OR alive. See my post #38 , I have heard what happens.

[Age of Reason]

Women still don't belong in combat areas.

[Caesar Soze]

I have always felt that having women in the service is a HUGE mistake. If alive and taken prisoner, I'm sure she is discovering why. I need not elaborate here.

Because the female PWs would be tortured and raped while male PWs are getting manicures and eating bon-bons? Don't you think women are aware of that possibility before they start signing papers and taking oaths?

[annyokie]

Look, Brainiac, and READ the thread before you pop off.

MY child, albiet, MALE, is active duty. STFU.
If you can read closely, you will see that I have not bashed anyone.

[El Gato]

wasn't Bill Clinton the idiot who put American women in the position that this brave young woman was in?

No, she wasn't in a combat arms position, she was a supply clerk. Women have served in non-combat positions since well before Bill Clinton dishonered the office of President of the United States. One difference is that today they are all taught to defend themselves with arms, which hasn't always been the case.

[ALS]

Go ahead and flame me, but, this kind of cheap sentimentality is the reason that GIRLS should not be in the Service.

Where are the fawning pictures of our dead boys? WTFO?

God bless her family and I thank her for her service.

perfectly put

[Loyalist]

This paragraph exposes the writer's bias:

Private Jessica — known as Jessie — only joined up because she could not find a job in her farming community home town of Palestine, West Virginia.

[dandelion]

It doesn't matter - they are already there, and they are doing their job.

This is really starting to chap my *ss that one of our women is captured, or one of them dies, or they just made the mistake of showing up to do their ****ing job, no one can pay tribute to these gals without some *sshole putting them down. I just ONCE want to say "Good job, soldier girl" without some idiot bashing these women. I'm not going to take it any more.