Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site mtung.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!jdh From: jdh@mtung.UUCP (Julia Harper) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Women in combat Message-ID: <582@mtung.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 19:36:08 EDT Article-I.D.: mtung.582 Posted: Mon Jul 1 19:36:08 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 06:54:58 EDT References: <742@oddjob.UUCP> <388@mtxinu.UUCP> <1041@peora.UUCP> <647@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <1054@peora.UUCP> I agree with Karen about women in combat. Men and women should be treated equally. This includes being drafted. I certainly don't think my brother should have any greater responsibility for our country than I do. (He wasn't drafted either.) Which reminds me -- I've listened to a number of talk shows where older men who are veterans call up to tell the women speaking on the show that they don't have the right to make comments about the political policies of the United States -- because they haven't put their lives on the line like these men. Another note -- it's amazing how often people forget that many women have served the country and are veterans. -- Julia Harper [ihnp4,ariel]!mtung!jdh