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Mixed Feelings about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Started by Butterfly, June 01, 2010, 05:08:02 PM

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June 01, 2010, 05:08:02 PM
Mixed Feelings about Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Women Born Transsexual
By Suzan
31 May, 2010


http://womenborntranssexual.com/2010/05/31/mixed-feelings-about-dont-ask-dont-tell/


I won't lie.  I was called up for a Draft physical in early 1968 at the height of the Vietnam war, an absolutely worthless conflict that resulted in the deaths of some 58,000 American service people and some several million Vietnamese.

I knew I would not go.  Fighting a war that some rich old men wanted me to fight against people who were totally incapable of harming the US seemed absurd.  Besides to paraphrase Mohammad Ali (still Cassius Clay) "No Vietnamese ever called me a sissy or queer."  Simply put my oppressors, my enemies were right here in the USA.
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