Reply #97: you're right

[maxanne]

The military is a macho culture - soldiers are taught to disassociate themselves from their
emotions, and kill people. As you point out, this takes a toll on the psyche. Can we realistically
expect people who engage in war to come out of it sane and whole? Women have long been regarded as
"spoils of war," and the US military has long been a bastion of sexism. That gets paid some lip service
but it's never REALLY been addressed.

My best friend's sister spent 18 months in Iraq. She was lucky, she was in a Guard unit full
of really good guys - she was one of them, and they were very protective of her. She told us
awful stories though, of women in other units who were raped in the showers, etc.