Field wrong about women and war
At the 2007 Emmy awards, Sally Field, the former "Flying Nun," became Hollywood's latest "screaming Mimi." During her bloviating, she blurted out that if mothers ran the world children wouldn't be sent off to war.
She forgets Margaret Thatcher sending British troops to keep the Falklands under the control of the Brits. In the current world, she must have forgotten that our next savior of health care in America, Hillary Clinton, voted to go to war in Iraq. Also, let's not forget the Palestinian moms who almost daily send their progeny off to camps to learn how to blow themselves up in the cause of religious fanaticism.
Lastly, if I may offer my own personal experience, I attended an elementary military boarding school in Oak Park following WW II. In charge of our military training was a Catholic nun of the Adrian Dominican Order based in Adrian, Mich. She may not have been our mom, but she was virtual mother to some 200 boys five days a week, nine months a year. In the 1950s, President Eisenhower noted in a national news magazine, when they were worth reading, that there was a nun in the Chicago area training boys to fight America's next battles. I can't think of any group of women on the face of this earth to be more peace-loving than an order of Catholic nuns.
Perhaps Field should go back in time and re-examine her own days as a nun, albeit make-believe.
Bob Schayer
Lake Zurich