Lesbians never had to be conscripted to fight day-by-day over a few feet of land, crawling out from a trench to rush machine-guns, barbed wire, and mines.
Lesbians never had to witness being subjected to malaria, in Greece, Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Africa, while having to wear equipment meant to cover the skin to prevent mosquitoes from infecting them.
Lesbians never had to face the failure of Gallipoli, of the inability of command and lack of intelligence that led to more than 250,000 British, New Zealander, and Australian men being killed by Turkish soldiers, who knew their territory and defended it to the death.
Lesbians never had to fear chlorine gas early in the war, and its even deadlier evolution, mustard gas.
Lesbians will never know what it was like to be a soldier in World War I.
Instead, they're afraid of words and getting yelled at for their sexual orientation, because they still haven't realized the whole world hasn't changed on a dime to accept them.
If they want to show real bravery, then they can prove it by going onto the battlefield.