Fighting to Fight: Questioning the Battle of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
By Gabrielle Korn August 11, 2011 On September 20, 2011, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — the law barring gays and lesbians from serving openly in
By Gabrielle Korn August 11, 2011 On September 20, 2011, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — the law barring gays and lesbians from serving openly in
The war in Afghanistan is not the first U.S. war in which the ill-treatment of women was used to stoke the fire for war support
By Helen Benedict August 3, 2011 In 2006, when I discovered that more women were serving and fighting in the Iraq War than in all
By Autumn Sandeen July 28, 2011 The Veterans Administration released a new directive on transgender veterans in June 2011, “Providing Health Care For Transgender And
by Eleanor J. Bader The setting changes but the scene does not: Men and women in crisply pressed uniforms enter public high schools across the
by Kathleen Barry Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich will be in military court this summer of 2011 for a massacre that killed 24 in Haditha, Iraq
By Chris Lombardi In 1944 Dorothy Hanson was a 20-year old Army lieutenant, a nurse, stationed in a Staten Island hospital when a corporal “put
by Susan Feiner t ten years and counting, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the longest in U.S. history. Not surprisingly, they are the
By Jeanmarie Simpson June 29, 2011 In October 2002, I was scrolling around on the Internet, when an image caught my eye of a woman
By Marjorie Signer June 23, 2011 Jessica Kenyon was one of more than 400,000 women who serve in the Armed Forces at any given time.