Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Meet the women fighting on the front lines of an American war
غايل تزيماش ليمون: تعرف على النساء اللاتي حاربن في الصفوف الأمامية خلال الحرب الأمريكية
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon writes about women around the world living their lives at war and in conflict zones. Full bio
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has the funny one,
الشخصية المضحكة ،
when you need a good cry,
الحاجة للبكاء،
عندما يكون لديك يوم صعب .
when you've had a hard day.
of groundbreaking women
then friends, and then family --
whose friendship and valor was cemented
التي توطدت صداقتهم
and done at the tip of the spear,
أوالمخاطر الذي واجهوها،
officially, at least --
رسمياً --على الأقل--
with Special Operations leaders,
in the United States military, saying,
في جيش الولايات المتحدة ،
لمساعدتنا على شن هذه الحرب" .
to the end of its wars," it argued.
and more understanding."
in a community and in a home,
يحدث في مجتمع أوبلد ،
Southern Afghanistan,
men could not talk to women,
يتحدث الرجال إلى النساء،
and traditional society like Afghanistan,
that the women who would be recruited
أن النساء اللاتي سيتم تعيينهن
and Navy SEALs,
experienced by less than five percent
المجرّبة من قبل أقل من 5%
Become a part of history.
أصبحن جزءاً من التاريخ.
on the battlefield in Afghanistan."
أرض المعارك في أفغانستان .
wanted to do something that mattered
القيام بشيء ذو معنى
for their country,
it was about serving with purpose.
بل كان الخدمة لسبب.
to North Carolina
إلى كارولينا الشمالية
on the Special Operations front lines,
على خطوط جبهة العمليات الخاصة،
very quickly a community,
and as fit as they were,
for who they were,
was that all of a sudden,
كان مفاجئة ًللجميع،
around and realized
than one giraffe at the zoo."
an ROTC cadet, a sorority sister
بهيئة تدريب ضباط الاحتياط
all in one person.
النسائية كل هذا بشخصية واحدة.
who always ran and road marched
always wanted to be in the infantry,
دائما أن تنظم إلى المشاة،
that women couldn't be,
to bust drug gangs in Pennsylvania.
في الإيقاع بعصابات المخدرات في بنسلفانيا.
who played high school football
after the first,
عن اللعب في بادئ الأمر،
that girls couldn't play football,
أن النساء لا يمكنهم لعب كرة القدم ،
who would come after her.
part of their destiny,
حاسما ً في قرار مصيرهم،
out of reach for girls."
to serve with the best of the best
to their country,
أهمية بالنسبة لبلادهم،
that they were female,
was like women everywhere.
مثل كل النساء.
وفي الحقيقة،
over eyeliner and eye pencil.
لاستعمال الآي لاينر والكحل .
of weight on their backs,
من الوزن على ظهرهم،
للقيام بعملية ما،
a movie called "Bridesmaids."
big where they should be small,
من الحجم الصغير كانت كبيرة ،
you see her here on my left --
ترون صورتها على يساري--
when she went out on mission each night.
في كل ليلة تخرج فيها في مهمة.
over video conference
from their various bases,
من مختلف قواعدهم،
doing what they were doing.
اللاتي يقمن بذلك
بتبادل الطرائف،
what was working, what wasn't,
وما لم يسر على نحو جيد،
what they needed to do better.
وما يحتاجون تحسينه.
some of the lighter moments of being women
that let you pee like a guy,
a 40 percent accuracy rate out there.
and you could be feminine.
and really like cross-stitch.
والتطريز أيضا.
and you could also love to bake cookies.
الهيلوكبتر وخبز الكعك أيضا
to this mission as well.
they never forgot
to the front lines,
وجودهم بالخطوط الأمامية ،
prove themselves there.
out on mission,
a barricaded shooter lying in wait
who were waiting to enter the home.
والأمريكية لمُداهمة المنزل.
who found out
that make up explosives
in which they were standing,
all the way between there
كانت على مدى الطريق
about to head that night.
والمكان المُتسهدف في تلك الليلة.
of their teammates proved herself
they were looking for
الذي كانوا يبحثون عنه
another one of their teammates,
that they were looking for,
from the Rangers
they were looking for that night
not only for one another,
ليس بينهم فقط ،
who would come after them.
alongside whom they served.
behind every great man is a good woman.
who wanted to see them succeed.
أرادوا أن يشهدوا نجاحهم.
had served 12 deployments.
قد خدم 12 انتشارا للجنود
that he had to go train girls,
women in the summer of 2011,
هؤلاء النسوة في صيف 2011،
"We have just witnessed history.
our own Tuskegee Airmen."
was the one person
of Martha Stewart,
to make dinner for her husband,
who pushed her to be her best,
أن تكون الافضل ،
on her back and run for miles,
من الوزن على ظهرها والركض لأميال ،
in her office in Kandahar,
and then go to the gym
بالزبيب ثم تذهب إلى قاعة الرياضة
from a dead hang.
an extra pair of boots
would be on your speed dial.
through action.
over the easy wrong.
الحق ولو يعني ذلك بمفردها.
for walking up to a 15-foot rope,
to use both her arms and her legs,
استعمال كل من يديها ورجليها،
to tell their stories.
منازلهم ليخبرونا قصصهم.
alongside two Rangers,
على يد الحارسين
for the shadows
was still very much in place.
and gave a public testimony
بيانا عامّاً
"these women are warriors,
"هؤلاء النسوة هم مُحاربون،
in what it means to be a female
يُمكن ان تكون عليه الأنثى
and a school bus driver,
وسائقة لحافلة المدرسة،
about that overwhelming set of days,
كانت مغمورة بالمشاعر
in her hand came up to her
what a hero was.
that heroes could be women, too."
all the unsung heroines
بجميع البطلات المجهولات
to keep going and to test every limit.
وتجاوز كل حاجز.
bound forever in life and afterward
الأخوات بالخدمة إلى الأبد
who would come after them,
of those who had come before.
النسوة اللاتي سبقنهنّ.
in all shapes and sizes.
محاربين بمختلف الأحجام والأشكال .
يكونوا أبطالاً أيضا.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon - ReporterGayle Tzemach Lemmon writes about women around the world living their lives at war and in conflict zones.
Why you should listen
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon never set out to write about women entrepreneurs. After leaving ABC News for MBA study at Harvard, she was simply looking for a great -- and underreported -- economics story. What she found was women entrepreneurs in some of the toughest business environments creating jobs against daunting obstacles. Since then her writing on entrepreneurship has been published by the International Herald Tribune and Financial Times along with the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation.
Now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Lemmon continues to travel the world reporting on economic and development issues with a focus on women. She is the author of Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield (2014), as well as the best seller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana (2011) about a young entrepreneur who supported her community under the Taliban.
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