Women in the Military

A small bird will fall frozen dead from a bough

Without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Chances are that some of have seen the movie GI Jane and have cheered along with Demi Moore’s character as she spit in the face of her commanding officer as he proceeded to beat her to a pulp to prove a point about womens’ inferiority and how their presence can make the men weak. I was cheering with the best of them at the time, but now I’m not sure that if I saw it again, I’d be cheering with the same zeal.

When I first started to write this paper, I was drowning in my preconceived opinions about women’s involvement in the armed forces, but I currently find myself at a loss for a well-established, solid ground to stand on. I have explored the opposing viewpoints of this issue and I’m still torn. I have always had a great deal of respect for the armed forces and at one time even visited a recruiter. Sometimes I think that the dream still isn’t dead in me, especially since this past Thanksgiving.

This year, my family (my mother, my sister and I) decided to be a host family to two Great Lakes Naval Base Boot Camp me

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