A Bizarre Phrase The Army Taught Soldiers In World War II

Was its lesson sexist or comical or both?

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Every June 6, I write about a D-Day book in honor of a treasured relative who landed in France with the Allies and was seriously wounded and evacuated in the liberation of Saint-Lô.

There’s a lot of good writing about the invasion of Normandy, and I’ve been rereading some…