From Head Scarf to Army Cap, Making a New Life - New York Times

Posted by Owen Densmore on Dec 15, 2006; 4:35pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/From-Head-Scarf-to-Army-Cap-Making-a-New-Life-New-York-Times-tp523155.html

And now, for something completely different!
   http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/nyregion/15muslim.html?hp

Starting quote:
Stomping her boots and swinging her bony arms, Fadwa Hamdan led a  
column of troops through this bleak Texas base.

Only six months earlier, she wore the head scarf of a pious Muslim  
woman and dropped her eyes in the presence of men. Now she was  
marching them to dinner.

?I?m gonna be a shooting man, a shooting man!? she cried, her  
Jordanian accent lost in the chanting voices. ?The best I can for  
Uncle Sam, for Uncle Sam!?

The United States military has long prided itself on molding raw  
recruits into hardened soldiers. Perhaps none have undergone a  
transformation quite like that of Ms. Hamdan.


     -- Owen

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