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Excellent article up on the CBC website, where a 56 year old children's author talks about her experiences overseas.
Of course, she's going to make all the wives of the Armoured Corps soldiers deployed worry about what their husbands are up to with her closing anecdote:
Of course, she's going to make all the wives of the Armoured Corps soldiers deployed worry about what their husbands are up to with her closing anecdote:
I saw this tank coming up the hill, and there was nothing that says this is a woman in the tank. She comes roaring up and throws her stuff off and she looks like a movie star. The iconic image right now of the war is the ramp ceremony, but we may come out of this war with a new image, and that is [of] the woman as a battle soldier. It wasn't sexy — it was powerful. She was powerful and strong and straightforward and saying 'This is my place in the world.'