Wednesday, May 17, 2006

...the views of these experts...

From the Toronto Star today, this had me a little irritated.

"A woman Canadian soldier"... aside from the grammatical awkwardness, I was frustrated that the fact she was a woman made this a more important announcement than the deaths of any of our other soldiers had. When the first Canadian soldier was killed in combat, no one said ".. and was the first man to be killed in battle", or anything like that.