“I guarantee you that when the survival of you and your men is at stake NOBODY, I say again, NOBODY cares about anything other than how strait you can shoot. I am proud to have served with more than one gay soldier in the field under fire and the issue never came up with any of us. Any professional soldier has long overcome the fear of serving next to a Gay soldier. I personally owe my life to a gay soldier. I don’t think my sexual preference even crossed his mind when he stepped out in the open to come get me, I never thought to ask the doc at the field hospital if he was Gay and I’m pretty sure some of the blood they pumped into me was Gay blood. Blood that I am proud to have in my veins. Lets grow up as a people and put DADT to bed. I dishonors all of us who served.”

He made a second post in response to somone as follows.

“…..I didn’t know my teammate was gay, two years on an SF team with him.

I never knew until he came back in a box and I met his “sig. other” at his funeral. But if I had it would have made no difference.

Sometimes at night I see his face covered with dust, sweat and MY blood. Somehow It comforts me. He was an 18D for those of you who know what it takes to be an 18D

De Oppresso Liber – Frater SIne Pari”

I think that says it all.

The other option, which would never happen, would be to get ‘er done NOW, show the American people that nothing has changed, and it all blows over by election time. You’d need guts, faith, and firm congressional leadership by the Democrats to implement this second suggestion…so…nevermind!

This is ass-backward. You don’t restrict people’s liberty unless you have “concrete, in-depth evidence” that their participation will degrade military readiness–in wartime or not.

That’s the rub…they’ve *never* had concrete evidence that gay folks openly serving would cause a problem. The emperor has no clothes.

But no we have waited and waited, maybe they need to bleed a little to keep our votes.