Radical Fringe Toon Friday 11/24 - ...it use to be an insult...

[radfringe]

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[Richard Steele]

1. Nice one RF! recommended.

[radfringe]

2. thanks

[radfringe]

3. "fan" Mail: troll shows support for the troops

Comic Date: 20061124

Comments:

Womans lib-the "one size doesn't fit all" movement from the past comes home to roost in Iraq. Read em, weep, and remember.

[Richard Steele]

6. If "missing the point" was an Olympic event, that guy would make the team.

Whadda idjit.

[radfringe]

13. or as my dad would say

if he had two brains one of them would be lonely

[radfringe]

4. kick

[radfringe]

5. one more kick

[conscious evolution]

7. Who would have thought

Ozzie and Black Sabbath would relavent in this day and age.

Great one Rad!

[Sydnie]

8. Beautifully done

as usual. :hug:

[Glenda]

9. awwww

:cry:

[LeftishBrit]

10. Brilliant - and at the same time so sad and poignant!

[annabanana]

11. Oh, radfringe. That's a tough one....

Very moving.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

12. wow.

simple truth. :thumbsup:




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*Greg Grandin, Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
*Craig Nelson, Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations

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[A Simple Game]

14. I suppose this one is worth

a five, just like all of your others. I hate to sound sexist, but it must be harder on a family when the mother is in Iraq. I hope there are no families where both parents are in Iraq.

3.18 with 11 votes.

Keep up the good work.

[northofdenali]

15. Another thoughtful 'toon , radfringe

K&R

[radfringe]

16. WP article on Women serving in Iraq

Yearning to Be Whole Again
Sergeant Sees the Light After Year of Emotional, Family Turmoil
By Donna St. George
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 24, 2006; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/23/AR2006112301236.html

When they called her name, she could not move. Sgt. Leana Nishimura intended to walk up proudly, shake the dignitaries' hands and accept their honors for her service in Iraq-- a special coin, a lapel pin, a glass-encased U.S. flag.

But her son clung to her leg. He cried and held tight, she recalled. And so Nishimura stayed where she was, and the ceremony last summer went on without her. T.J. was 9, her oldest child, and although eight months had passed since she had returned from the war zone, he was still upset by anything that reminded him of her deployment.

----snip----

When war started in Iraq, a generation of U.S. women became involved as never before-- in a wider-than-ever array of jobs, for long deployments, in a conflict with daily bloodshed. More than 155,000 women have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Among their ranks are more than 16,000 single mothers, according to the Pentagon, a number that military experts say is unprecedented.

How these women have coped and how their children are managing have gone little-noticed as the war stretches across a fourth year.