Supporting our troops, part n+1

RantWoman has, um, unpredictable ways of writing about matters military:



Accessibility features for modern weaponry
http://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-nobel-peace-prize.html

Gay troops kissing at departure ceremonies
http://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2010/02/dont-ask-dont-tell-valentine.html

The latest on war tax resistance as witness
http://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2010/02/tax-resistance-season.html

selective conscientious objection.
http://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2010/03/selective-conscientious-objection.html

With all that as background, RantWoman now feels duty-bound by imperatives of familial piety to do the very best she can to pen another "support our troops" item, in particular , praying for Youngest Cousin, cousin's husband and stepdaughter, along with the rest of the whole current multinational shooting match.

Youngest Cousin recently found RantWoman through a certain social networking site. RantWoman is really, really glad to have been found. RantWoman has seen Youngest Cousin a handful of times, but Youngest Cousin shares RantWoman's middle name with our long-deceased grandmother. RantWoman remembers considerable amusement observing the degree to which youngest cousin had her father wrapped around her little finger. RantWoman was amused recently to hear RantMom be frankly outraged that Youngest Cousin shared her mother's name. RantWoman takes a different view.

The immediate Rant family plays Boggle pretty fiercely. One time Youngest Cousin and RantWoman had a spell of being stuck in some cabin during rain and started playing Boggle. Youngest Cousin,who a lot of the time well into her 20's just projected an image as agum-cracking teenager, impressed RantWoman because even though she keptlosing, she kept playing and was getting better.

RantWoman has been thinking of the Boggle playing. Youngest Cousin is having her third go at military service driving big vehicles full of flammable material around war zones. Youngest Cousin is a child of the Rocky Mountains; RantWoman has absolutely no doubt Youngest Cousin is up to the tasks. RantWoman does feel obliged to include in her ardent prayers the following sarcastic observation: the US does not send women into combat, We just set them up driving big vehicles loaded with explosives through endless IED's ....

RantWoman also promises to redouble efforts in more Quakerly directions!