Government by GI Jane?

Steve Russell
6 min readOct 24, 2020
F/A 18 Hornet, Amy McGrath’s ride for 89 combat missions. Photo from Pixabay.

These thoughts collide at the intersection of veterans serving in Congress and women serving in the military.

I favor both. When I was a youngster, I did not give veterans in Congress much thought. For an Indian kid in Oklahoma, pulling a hitch was what you did if you were male. Failure to pull a hitch made you the object of pity among some folks…

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Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)