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Catherine Moy
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Army Spc. Monica Lin Brown is the second woman since World War II to be awarded the Silver Star.

Monica Lin Brown makes one understand why teenagers make good soldiers: She is brave, strong and selfless. Spc. Brown is also a Texas girl and, after living a couple years in Texas where I attended school, let me just say that Texas turns out more than beauty queens. The women I knew in Texas were all American, all patriot, and pretty to boot - both inside and outside.

The Houston Chonicle reported that that Monica used her own body to protect others who had been hit in a roadside bombs, which the terrorists use because they don’t have the courage to stand up and fight teens like Monica. They are cowards who hide in caves and cover their faces with masks.

Dodging insurgent gunfire, a 19-year-old Lake Jackson soldier used her body to shield five injured comrades after a roadside bomb struck her convoy in Afghanistan last spring. That act of bravery has earned her the Silver Star.
Army Spc. Monica Lin Brown is only the second woman since World War II to receive the medal, one of the nation’s highest military awards given for gallantry in combat.
‘’She just did what she was trained to do,” her 74-year-old grandmother, Katy Brown, said from her Lake Jackson home on Sunday.
Monica Brown, a medic, was part of a four-vehicle convoy patrolling near Jani Kheil in the eastern province of Paktia when a bomb struck one of the Humvees on April 25, military officials said.

I have another thought when I read about this teenage hero. Is Monica one of the “children” that Code Pink, World Can’t Wait and other anti-American anarchist groups talks about? Is she one of the “kids” these groups are trying to “protect” when they attempt to shut down recruiting stations with violence?

Well, wake up and smell the earth-friendly coffee, Pinkos. Monica knows the truth. She has saved others lives in combat. And, yes, she is a teenager. But she’s a lot more woman than any of you dressed in pink skirts.