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We've banned this account for trolling and ignoring our request to stop.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

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"As a female war correspondent, Martha Gellhorn was not allowed to accompany the Allied invasion force .... and so, the night before the invasion, she finagled a spot on a hospital ship by telling military police she was there to interview nurses. Once aboard, Gellhorn found a bathroom, locked the door and hid until the ship was on its way to France on June 6, 1944."

"I had been sent to Europe to do my job, which was not to report the rear areas or the 'woman’s' angle.”

https://www.military.com/history/how-martha-gellhorn-became-...

Despite the so far unanimous invalidation you are experiencing in this thread, I would say that Martha Gellhorn would have agreed with you

No doubt, but I dare say she'd have agreed with us about low-value internet comments too.

What safety? Hundreds of US servicewomen were killed in WWII. Bombs and artillery don't discriminate by gender.

https://www.uso.org/stories/3005-over-200-years-of-service-t...