June 27, 2005
Daily War Porn or Silver Stars Affirm One Unit's Mettle
Women Play Key Roles In Combat Near Baghdad
"I really don't know who killed who," said (Sgt. Leigh Ann) Hester, who stands 5-foot-4, speaks with a twang and walks with a swagger. "He could have got three, I could have got one, I don't know. I know for sure I got at least one."
The U.S. military handed out combat citations last week for the March 20 battle, in which a military police squad of two women and eight men from the Kentucky Army National Guard killed 27 insurgents and wounded six in an orchard south of Baghdad. Hester won the Silver Star. She was the first female soldier to receive the award for exceptional valor since World War II and the first ever to be cited for close combat.
~Joerg reflects: "After World War II, there was a large set of pulp fiction emerging in Germany (called "Landser") with tales of heroic (German) fighting in those WWII battles. Sadly enough, this article from the Washington Post could be taken from Landser. For me as a German it's simply shocking to see this in a mainstream US newspaper. It's really just cheap pulp fiction for a country where the vast majority of people seems to crave Hollywood-style junk."
[image via google/ not with above]
Posted by Cieciel at June 27, 2005 06:09 AM