And now, for something completely different!
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/nyregion/15muslim.html?hp
Starting quote:
Stomping her boots and swinging her bony arms, Fadwa Hamdan led a
column of troops through this bleak Texas base.
Only six months earlier, she wore the head scarf of a pious Muslim
woman and dropped her eyes in the presence of men. Now she was
marching them to dinner.
“I’m gonna be a shooting man, a shooting man!” she cried, her
Jordanian accent lost in the chanting voices. “The best I can for
Uncle Sam, for Uncle Sam!”
The United States military has long prided itself on molding raw
recruits into hardened soldiers. Perhaps none have undergone a
transformation quite like that of Ms. Hamdan.
-- Owen
Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net
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