Female Draft Registration

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To the Editor:

Re “Senate Votes for Women to Register for the Draft” (news article, June 15):

As a veteran of the Navy Nurse Corps, I wholeheartedly support requiring women to register for the draft. We women have long demanded equality. There is no reason that we should then leave it to men to serve and protect our country.

The argument that we are requiring young women to go into combat is nonsense. Although combat roles are now open to women, even many men who serve in the military in times of war never see combat.

The military is a very large organization employing everyone from supply personnel and drivers to cooks, chaplains and office workers. It is about time that we asked the same patriotic duty of women that we ask of men.

ANNE-MARIE HISLOP

Chicago