For Love or Country: ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Sucks.

Many of my family members are in the armed forces. My grandfather served in WW2, my uncle enlisted in the National Guard and my cousin is at military school.

I was never much of a fighter, but I always had the utmost of respect for anyone who would be willing to give of themselves and fight for their country. Military enlistment remains middling, but still, many are denied the opportunity to serve the country they love because their sexuality does not fall in line with what the military deems ‘acceptable’.

Like an aging elephant in the room, the looming specter of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) acts as a burden to progress. Why – in a nation as advanced as America – can men and women be refused the right to fight for their country, as a result of who they love? Let’s look at a few cases where brave Americans’ dedication and love of country was ignored as a result of the unjust, and frankly unAmerican, DADT policy.

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Steve Romain