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If it was just her I would say good luck and hope you make a difference. But it is not just her and it should be about the three kids she has first and foremost. She is putting her own personal cause over the very children she is supposed to care for. It is selfish and disturbing.
From The DailyMail: A mother-of-three from North Carolina is the latest Westerner to volunteer to fight against ISIS in Iraq.
Samantha Johnston, 25, from Emerald Island, who previously served in the US Army, is believed to have joined the Kurdish Peshmerga troops, who are battling ISIS in northern Iraq and Syria.
She said she wanted to fight ISIS because: ‘I decided to come fight because I felt like it was my duty.
The Times reports that pictures of Ms Johnston, a divorced mother of a five year-old and three-year-old twins, carrying a rifle and wearing military fatigues have been circulating on Kurdish news websites.
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According to her US Army Record Samantha Lois Jay Johnston served from 2008-2011 as a geospatial engineer.
She told the Daily Caller that she cried ‘all the way to the airport’ and nearly changed her mind about going – but decided if she did not go she would never forgive herself.
‘These children here who are homeless, orphaned; mothers and sisters have been raped and sold, fathers who have been killed, they are suffering, and I knew that I couldn’t just sit and do nothing.
‘I couldn’t look my children in the eyes and say, “I didn’t do anything to help.”‘
Ms Johnston told the site her children are in ‘a safe place’.
Read more at http://woundedamericanwarrior.com/w...es-kids-to-kill-islamic-terrorists-in-iraq-2/