you are a girl. no i am not, i am a woman. but, you are a girl, too. no.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. My brother was born in 71 too

Here's the advantage. . .

My mom was an only child whose father had a construction company. Guess who did home repairs growing up? She would let my dad TRY to be the hero - then he'd cry uncle and she would save the day!

My dad was one of ten - nine survived to adulthood. Six were girls. My father had tremendous empathy for women. He LIKED women. He only had ONE sexist attitude that popped up when the Army tried to recruit me in high school - he had to point out Tail Hook to the obnoxious recruiter and tell the guy "let someone else's daughter liberate the god damned US Army!"


But - in spite of having been an Army Officer and a Green Beret/Delta Force - my father became an arch pacifist after the Lebanon bombing in the early 1980's. So he forbade my brother from going into the military too. Felt that between his service, my uncle's service, my great uncles service - and the fact that my mom could trace a family members service all the way to pre USA (French Indian War) - we were absolved From serving our country in a way that could put our lives at risk.


Women in this country lost a man who loved us, was kind to us, and believed in our capabilities this past August.

We had many conversations the week before he died. As a black kid born in Alabama in 1941 he never thought he would live to see Obama in office. He was sad he wouldn't live to see a woman in that role . . . That's the only thing outside of being at my wedding that he was clear he was sad he missed . . . And he asked me to share that with my children someday.