AnnieO your post is very well written.  I get so angry when the right wing goes on about the military not being a social experiment, when that is precisely what it's always been.  When the ultimate mission is someone else's death (while hopefully keeping you and your buddies alive) the military has proven to be the best petri dish for social experimentation and integration.  Death and avoiding death are the great equalizers.  As a co worker of mine who served multiple terms in the Middle East said in reference to a quote from Senator Tammi Duckworth:  "You don't give a sh-t about whether or not the medic saving your life is LGBT, you just hope they know what they're doing.  Thanks to their training they usually do."

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