I’m getting sidetracked reading a Peggy Noonan column on the Allen-Webb race in Virginia. She writes: “I’ve never met a career military man who was a conservative on social issues.”

Her next sentence does make sense, mind you: “I think they tend to see questions such as abortion and marriage as essentially uninteresting, private and not subject to the movement of machines.”

But I know I’ve met career military men who are pro-life and stubbornly and passionately so — often, I think because they are fathers and just can’t help to be. There’s also something about putting your life on the line for others and knowing how quickly life can brutally and unfairly end that instills a deeper dedication for the need to protect innocent life.

But I’m just a chickenhawk chick. Plenty of career military men read The Corner. What say you?