Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!wisen From: wisen@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: equal treatment? - (nf) Message-ID: <208@inmet.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jul-83 05:41:37 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.208 Posted: Wed Jul 20 05:41:37 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jul-83 19:26:12 EDT Lines: 14 #R:hound:-21100:inmet:10900008:000:739 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.