New era for US military as gay ban expires
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WASHINGTON — As a staff sergeant training to be an Air Force officer, David Hall had a promising career ahead of him until a fellow airman outed him as gay.
Nearly 10 years later, Hall said he hopes to rejoin the military that discharged him when a ban on openly gay and lesbian troops officially expires on Tuesday.
Hall, 37, has already put in phone calls to recruiters and said he will be celebrating on Tuesday that “the country as a whole realized that this was something that needed to go away.”
Years of legal battles and political activism — along with changing social attitudes and open policies among most Nato allies — paved the way for the change, which Congress approved in December..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110921com3.html
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