Hillary Clinton tried to join the Marines, and was apparently told that she couldn’t because she was a women – another fishy claim.
This story has been told repeatedly by Hillary — almost as often as the truthfulness of the story has been questioned — as a means to show both the candidate’s pioneering personality and the systematic sexism she thinks she has had to endure as a woman on the road to the White House.
Now she’s telling a new story.
Hillary Clinton tried to be an astronaut and was apparently told that she couldn’t because she was a woman.
Seems a bit too familiar, doesn’t it? Maybe next week we’ll hear how he NFL killed Hillary’s dreams of becoming a star linebacker because she was a woman. Until then, see her recount the story below:
I am the same age as Hillary. Someone in my class sent a card wanting information about the Marines except a male version of my name was used but the address was my home address. Every 18 year old was required to register for the draft. Two months after graduation, two MPs from Marines knocked on the door and asked my mom if they could speak with J. She explained that she didn’t have a son with that name but she had a daughter. They asked to speak to me. The year was 1965.
Her big mouth would not fit in the capsule