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Subject: Re: equal treatment? - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 20-Jul-83 05:41:37 EDT
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inmet!wisen    Jul 19 18:51:00 1983

   If a war begins in Europe, then Mr. Weinberger won't need to send women
to the battlefront.   The battlefront will come to the women.
   I wonder what the female guerillas of the world think of Mr. Weinberger
after this remark?  Probably no better than they tho't of him beforehand.
   A Massachusetts citizen, Deborah Sampson, disguised herself as a man
(boy?), and enlisted in the Continental Army.  She fought for several years,
(with valor, history records), and was discharged when they discovered her
gender.  I believe she's the only woman of that time who got a military 
pension.   She later bore five children, pretty good for a seasoned fighter.
  I think she's recently been declared our Official State Heroine.
---Bruce W.