Veterans,
Thought I would forward this as a reminder for all of you who were there for
Desert Storm. I first heard it a while ago from Jane Clayson (who now does
the CBS morning show) when she was shopping for a gift for her fiance'.
Wes
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> >>>Barbara Walters had done a story on gender roles in Kuwait
> >>several
> >>years before the Gulf War, and she noted then that women
> >>customarily walked about 10 feet behind their husbands.
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> >>She returned to Kuwait recently and observed that the men now
> >>walked several yards behind their wives.
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> >>Ms. Walters approached one of the women for an explanation.
> >>"This is marvelous," she said. "What enabled women here to
> >>achieve
> >>this reversal of roles?"
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> >>The Kuwaiti woman replied, "Land mines."
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