The article in the Ottawa Citizen quotes Captain Goddard: “I don’t like to be told what I can’t do.” Sometimes it is good for us to be told that we can’t do something, and even to be prevented from trying. She was killed by ‘a chance ricochet of shrapnel,’ says the article. That is a coincidental way of putting it. It reminds me of how King Ahab was smitten: when a certain man drew his bow ‘at a venture’ (1 Kings 22.34.) This random shot is recorded twice in the Bible for effect (2 Chronicles 18.33.) Arrows do not find their target except by the direction of God. That is the lesson. It is the same with shrapnel. Stepping out of our proper station in society is hazardous. Concerning making sure that a place in heaven is secured, through faith in Christ, before our sudden death, hark: “For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion” (Ecclesiastes 9.4.) It is better to be in one’s proper station in life and to live longer because of it; as long as a person lives, there is time to obtain faith in Jesus to secure eternal life and to lay up treasures in heaven. Putting poppies on crosses does not secure heaven for soldiers. And no soldier goes to heaven on battlefield merits. No person goes to heaven on any merits other than the merits of Jesus Christ—the merits that were wrought by his sinless life and holy death. Did she have faith in the Lord for salvation from sin and wrath before she was killed? This is the most important question to be asked concerning anyone who has died.
“She was young and relatively inexperienced, but she was recommended for the Forward Observation Officer course, which she passed,” says her proud mother on a blog called ‘Lest We Forget.’ That sounds like preferential treatment. It sounds like a young, inexperienced soldier was favored because of her gender. But did she mind? Does a feminist mind when men are unfairly passed over so that she can move up in rank? It is correct to call Goddard a feminist, and not only because she was glad to be a woman in a man’s domain. According to an article that her mother wrote in The Globe and Mail in 2015, it is thanks to Nichola that something called a ‘girlie bag’ cannot be called that anymore. Imagine a female cadet telling her training sergeant what to call a bag! And the sergeant is so afraid of Canada’s autocratic feminism that he obeys his saucy recruit! Maybe Nichola wanted to carry the ‘girlie bag’ instead of the heavy bag but did not want to be reminded that choosing the ‘girlie bag’ was choosing the easy way out. From that Globe and Mail article, entitled, As My Daughter Knew, the Military Can Change Its Ways: “No one wanted to be caught carrying the ‘girlie’ bag. Nichola suggested to the sergeant that he rename the bag, explaining her reasons. He immediately complied with her request.” How tough! How strong! How brave! What leadership style! What groundbreaking she did! Nichola was concerned that some recruits might hurt themselves by choosing the heavy bag, which choice was being made because choosing something called a ‘girlie bag’ was embarrassing. Who was risking injury by choosing the heavy bag? Probably these were the women recruits—women who should not have been on the course. From the same article: “He [the sergeant] said he had told his wife that he would probably be asked to leave the military because of the ‘girlie’ bag incident.” So the training sergeant who called the light bag a ‘girlie bag’ was afraid for his job. Yes, woe unto you, sergeant, if it gets out that you’re man enough to call a light bag a ‘girlie bag’! Woe unto you if you refuse this officer cadet’s ‘request’! Officer Goddard’s feminist agenda is so gentle and considerate, isn’t it? Not so much for the sergeant’s peace of mind and job security, it isn’t. Was she thinking of this man’s job when she balked? Was she having any concern for his family? In Canada, then, an officer cadet, if female, has power over the careers of her training sergeants. She should have been thrown out of the military the moment she told the sergeant what to call that bag. It would have saved her life. But the sergeant would not have gotten away with that. So to save his job he had to submit to a mouthy female cadet who shouldn’t have been there in the first place. When feminism is preferred over manliness, respect for authority is lost, tyranny is in force, and your job is at stake if you do not conform. The article also mentions that two soldiers under her command wanted her to officiate at their wedding and that Goddard, therefore, successfully advocated for, and got, more inclusive wording in the military handbook for marriages. That would be the wedding of two male soldiers—soldiers who were not ‘heterosexual.’ How romantic! What a military we have now! What radical progress this is! This woman was a radical feminist, a destroyer of traditions and decency. Her mother, Sally, is obviously supportive of everything her daughter ‘achieved,’ for Sally wants the national anthem to be rendered gender-neutral, according to an article from 2013 on a site called, MyKawartha.com, Group of Prominent Women Want O Canada Changed to Gender-Neutral Lyrics.
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