Awful as Hillary's statement is, it did minimally acknowledge that those men were of value to the wives, mothers and daughters of the dead. Even this emotional value of men to the women who love them isn't acknowledged as a priority to anyone by a lot of people these days.

Nowadays, there are women who firmly believe that once reproductive technology can create human embryos without using sperm men will be entirely dispensable. They don't even have comprehend that even though our society is safe and prosperous enough that wine aunties and girl bosses can live and long, comfortable lives without male partners, the larger society can't function without men. The infrastructure that men create and maintain could not be perpetuated, or even maintained, by female labor alone.

I have a woman friend who worked for a big city's water bureau for about 10 years. I always admired her for just doing the job, not expecting special treatment for being a woman, and never spewing a bunch of feminist ideology. Sadly, she's only in her early 50s and after 10 years doing a man's job, her body is completely destroyed. Even a particularly muscular and willing woman is incapable of doing jobs like that for decades the way men do. I'm sure that the water bureau work she was doing would not be considered particularly difficult compared to many jobs that men need to do to keep our civilization functioning.