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Originally Posted by cmac2012
However, I can't for the life of me understand why we send women with toddlers at home into combat.
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I'll give you a flip-side to consider. On Sunday 6 Canadian soldiers were killed in Afghanistan when an IED exploded under their armoured personnel carrier. Yesterday on the news they had video footage of one of the soldiers, a man in his mid 30's, playing with his wife and two young children (maybe 2 and 4) at the base the day before being shipped out. It was absolutely heartbreaking to know that was the last time those kids saw their father, and that those two boys will have to grow up without his guidance and love. If you were to ask those kids when they grow up if they would have preferred to have lost their mother or their father in that roadside bomb I haven't got a clue how they would answer it. A dead parent is a dead parent.
Why send women? Because they volunteered. Nobody forced them to sign up. Respect their choice and allow them to serve.