<div class="gmail_quote"><div>On the whole I think our military history articles aren't great at dealing with sexual violence, on a number of dimensions.</div><div><br></div><div>For instance, there was a large amount of well-documented rape and sexual mutiliation of Vietnamese women by U.S. forces in Vietnam, but the Vietnam War article doesn't cover this.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Women_in_Vietnam" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Women_in_Vietnam</a> </div><div><br></div><div>You will be relieved to know that is has more paragraphs devoted to the American nurses who served in Vietnam than to anything about Vietnamese women. Apparently this is because, on the American side at least, "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">many men reported that having women in the field with them boosted their morale.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Although this was not the women’s purpose, it was one positive result of the their service."</span></span> </div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm sure you'll agree that a bit of morale-boosting is far more worthy of comment than other services provided by nurses, e.g. medical care. </div><div><br></div><div>Sexual violence by Americans in Vietnam is also missing from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_rape">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_rape</a> - though of course that article does adequately cover <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women</a> - evidently rape is better-covered when it is Asians doing the raping rather than being raped. One wonders why. </div>
<div><br></div><div>;-)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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