AIBU to wonder where the brave women vetetans are?

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I have given and chatted to several elderly men, thanked them, bought poppies.

but where are the women? DH's Gran worked the searchlights and obviously they were constantly at risk of being bombed themselves. Very brave people.

She is almost ninety and has a story or two to tell.

No health problems which would preclude her being in shopping centres, she'd love to do it but it's all younger people and all men with beards and motorised wheelchairs which she doesn't think she needs because after all, she can walk a few steps!

I think it's because for these "Veteran's Day" thing's, you need to of actually fought IN the war, as in be a veteran of a battle?

Thats my wild stab in the dark

YANBU- They had this great documentary on here a while ago and I was amazed at these women.

Not sure it's still available to watch but there is a good blog about it here

I remember reading about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violette_Szabo Violet Szabo, when I was a child, her story was amazing. And there were many more female secret agent who got essential information to British Intelligence.

we don't hear enough about these amazing women.

Violet Szabo

Sorry!

I think because male veterans are "the face" of remembrance day. Of course when the WWI veterans were still alive that made sense, but there have always been female ambulance drivers/RAF staff/nurses to name a few who were on or near the front line, and died.

It's the "fought and died for our country" thing I think.

One of the many reasons why I buy a white poppy (usually as well as a red) - to represent all the victims of war, non-combatants and civilians included.

Ypu do get an increasing number of women marching at the Centotaph (sp) on Rememberance Sunday.

I think it is a generational thing tbh - the feeling that only 'proper' combatants should be 'revered'. The SOE (that Violette and other worked for) was secret, and all the operatives were told to keep it that way after the war. Most did, hence men and women not getting recognition.

I had two grandfathers - one was a warden, the other in the army and at both Dunkirk and D Day. They both 'served', but the one who was a warden wouldn't think about 'marching' or being the face of advertising....it is isn't just women who served in brave non-combatant roles and are rarely recognised.

Perhaps in the future now we have women pilots decorated for bravery and female army personnel blown up in Afganistan we will see an increasing mix of genders shown.