I discover daily the apologies we need to be making as a country to the men and women in our country who served in Vietnam.
Heck, our country is just apologizing to the Filipino veterans whom we promised to take care of during WW2 if only they would come and fight for us. This year, they will receive a monetary payment for their service. It’s only several decades too late. Please read the story here.
I viewed a documentary today that demonstrated the next generation of warriors for our country that we will be apologizing to: our women. I hope and pray that the movie, Lioness will make it into public viewings soon. We had access to it at work. I sat in a room with nearly 80 women veterans from the WW2 era until today. I heard tears of my sisters as they sobbed aloud, heard the young voices echo “I was there too”, and watched as brave women could no longer watch the reality of soldiers each day. Team Lioness describes the unit of women who are brought into combat zones (which incidentally is illegal according to US law). The women are used to search the local women of Iraq and Afghanistan. The women in one combat zone were used in a search effort to protect the translator. Several women are featured in the film and each of them tell their story. They gather together as a group at one point to provide support to one another. A History channel video featuring a particular city under attack and they watched it together. They sat there in disbelief that the story was all about the male soldiers in battle in the city. Many of them were explaining that they were there in the city on that exact day fighting alongside these men but were never mentioned. Please, watch this video if it comes to a theater near you. Here’s the trailer:
Let’s bring the troops home.
And while we are at it, let’s tell the whole story about what is going on and who is fighting this war.
Thank you to the men and women who are serving our country.
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