Dare to Fly

By; Martha McSally (Simple Lessons in Never Giving Up) For all kinds of reasons many of you living in Arizona will vote against McSally in November. I can say the same for those in other States, who will support Democrats, no matter what to effect a change in the power structure. I bought this book as I was interested in what she might have to say. Thankfully this was not about her politics but for the most part her life story with emphasis on the difficulties she had to overcome to graduate from the Air Force Academy, learn to fly the A-10 and rise in rank to Colonel leading others in combat. The one issue that I had followed closely when it was happening was her brave actions to reverse the policy of female military to wear burkas in Saudi Arabia when off base and have a male driver. She fought this against Donald Rumsfeld and won. The Bill to rescind the policy was approved by the House unanimously The Senate then also approved. One piece of Legislation that was passed which she sponsored was to give recognition to the female pilots from WWII. At the time they were considered civilians. The Army would not allow them to be buried in Arlington. She has been athletic her whole life running marathons and triathlon events. I was impressed by this. The most I ever did was running in 10K races. Other than the above this is an interesting biography which you might enjoy reading. Jack B. Walters June 16, 2020