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Women journalists who covered the Vietnam War are often not given their proper due when the history of the conflict is told. Joyce Hoffmann (Old Dominion University) is the author of On Their Own: Women Journalists in Vietnam. She shares stories of women who won esteemed prizes for their reporting and several who broke new ground covering the war.
Also featured: More and more military mothers are being deployed throughout the world. Mona Ternus (George Mason University) says there is a connection between the length of time military mothers are deployed and an increase in drug use, attempted suicide, and other risk factors for their children.
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Recently in Afghanistan the Marines launched what they call the "Female Engagement Team." Women Marines don head scarfs and body armor and talk with Afghani women in the villages, who won't talk to men. They're getting important information this way. As the conflict in Afghanistan escalates more women are being deployed. Many are mothers. A new study suggests when mothers deploy, it takes a toll on the children they’re forced to leave behind. I'm Sarah McConnell and today on With Good Reason, we talk about mothers going off to war.
Later on today's program, women reporters in VietNam.
But first, Mona Ternus is a nurse and Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force Reserve, who deployed to Bosnia and Tunisia in the 1990's. In 2003, she was deployed again—even though she had a teenage daughter, and her husband was already serving in Iraq. Since then, as an Assistant Dean and medical...
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