The Black Flame 2
- THE BLACK FLAME 2 - A black ink and gray pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size vellum paper. It appears in, "The Black Flame," by Lynn Abbey, published by Ace Pb in 1985.
Women warriors . . .
There was a time when I thought that women were our treasures; they are the objects of our love, they bring into life our children, they are the reason the human race continues to endure from generation to generation. "Women and children first" is what you hear when life-boats are lowered from a sinking ship . . .
I used to think that there could never be a time when men would allow women to fight in a war, to have to face an enemy in battle, to take a bullet and die, for whatever the cause . . .
But now, I see them in battle fatigues and backpacks, holding deadly weapons, fighting the enemy in Afghanistan, and elsewhere . . .
I see them on television in hospitals, recovering from wounds, trying on prosthetic legs or arms, or both, lost in battle.
I see them coming home in body-bags . . .
Yes, whatever men can do, women can do, and that incudes fighting side by side with men in battle . . .
But what I used to think, I still do. Women can fight as well as men, but that does not mean that they should. We men diminish ourselves when we allow women to go in harm's way.
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