Yesterday the President issued a ban on Transgender people in the Military - in any capacity. His policy announcement came via Tweet as usual and in so doing blind-sided the Senate Armed Services Committee and overturned Obama's policy. On the same day the NYT Book Review covered a publication on the use of women in the Soviet Army during WWII - numbered to estimate one million. These ladies did not talk about their experience as they felt stigmatized. One being interviewed said "we were silent as fish." A fellow worker - circa 1948 - had survived the Battle of the Bulge at age eighteen and told me of seeing dead German female soldiers on the battlefield. Too bad POTUS doesn't read history books.
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