Moms should not be sent off to fight, 12-07-07

In Josh Groban's rendition of "I'll Be Home for Christmas," a servicewoman at war and mother of a 4-year-old speaks of her sadness at not being with her daughter at Christmas. When I hear it I get a little sick.

Look, if enemy troops are coming into my neighborhood, I'll be out there "manning" the barricades with my neighbors. But what kind of a people unnecessarily sends women, many of them young single mothers, into the line of fire to defend men back on the home front?

Read entire article, December 7, 2007