Serving in silence
By: Margarethe Cammermeyer with Chris Fisher
Contributors: Fisher, Chris, 1951-
Edition: New edition.
Publisher: Margarethe Cammermeyer
Published: 2016
Place of publication: United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780692773932
Subjects: Gay military personnel; Biography; Lesbians; Women soldiers; Nurses; Lesbiennes; Biographies; Infirmières
Description: In 1989, during a routine interview for top-secret security clearance, U.S. Army Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer revealed she was a lesbian-- and began an ordeal that despite her distinguished twenty-six-year military career, resulted in her discharge from the U.S. Army. Her dismissal garnered intense media coverage, stirred debate all the way to the presidency, and ignited her activism that continues today. In this revealing autobiography, Cammermeyer writes of her decision to challange the official policy on homosexuals in the military and of her victory in Federal District Court and beyond. But much more than a book about laws and politics, Serving in silence is about coming of age, being a mother, and finding one's center; about tne daily horrors of nursing in Vietnam; about "coming out"; and about a brave soldier's life.
Notes: "Vietnam nurse, mother of four, highest-ranking officer to challenge the military's antigay policy."

"New edition with added epilogue"--Page 4 of cover.