Friday, October 05, 2007

Women in Combat Series

NPR recently had a series on Women in Combat. The five part series looks at a variety of factors that affect women.

I heard the fourth part yesterday as I was driving home from school. It talked about women not only dealing with the problems of PTSD, but also some of the difficulties in dealing the sexual assault as well. I can't even begin to imagine...

A couple days ago, I was listening to Ken Burns talk about World War II and his documentary on this during a late night show. He was talking about how some of these men had never shared their stories. Their families didn't even know what they went through. However, many of these stories were quite vivid even though these events happened sixty years ago. I wonder if sixty years from now if we'll look back and see if we've done any better in listening.

From All Things Considered, here's the link to the series:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14964676