In about 4 hours DADT will be gone

[bluestateguy]

And anyone in the ranks who does not like it is welcome to look elsewhere for employment.

http://sdgln.com/news/2011/09/19/counting-down-end-dadt-open-service-begins-tuesday

[Ohio Joe]

1. About damn time

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[RKP5637]

2. Yea!!! n/t

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[tblue]

3. I hope they'll consider reinstating some who have been kicked out.

But this is wonderful news!!!

[underpants]

4. AP Exclusive: Navy clears gay WWII vet's record

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Nearly 70 years after expelling Melvin Dwork for being gay, the Navy is changing his discharge from "undesirable" to "honorable" — marking what is believed to be the first time the Pentagon has taken such a step on behalf of a World War II veteran since the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell."

The Navy notified the 89-year-old former corpsman last month that he will now be eligible for the benefits he had long been denied, including medical care and a military burial.

Dwork spent decades fighting to remove the blot on his record.

"I resented that word 'undesirable,'" said Dwork, who was expelled in 1944, at the height of the war, and is now a successful interior designer in New York. "That word really stuck in my craw. To me it was a terrible insult. It had to be righted. It's really worse than 'dishonorable.' I think it was the worst word they could have used."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gZlSaYXoDH4cnaWXb6n019DEsh7g?docId=2e19a740f87549fea0194c55598d656d

[bluestate10]

5. That is likely to come. Many of the people that were dismissed were wronged

morally. And they took critical skills that are needed with them. Commonsense would dictate re-reinstatement. The sticking point may be re-reinstatement rank. Do those dismissed get re-instated at their dismissed rank, or do they get re-instated at a rank that their career trajectory would have intersected. If dismissed military men and women are not re-instated, the issue that keeps them out will be re-reinstatement rank.

[valerief]

6. I wish in 4 hours our war expense/staffing was gone, too. nt