Overnight, silently at midnight, DADT expired. There was no fanfare, and as far as I can see no protests either. It simply slipped into history and was gone. Imagine that!
I had two major problems with DADT (aside from the simple unfairness of it).
1. Not everyone takes naturally to the military. We have a volunteer army, and I believe the military is a calling. I know I would have been a terrible candidate for military service. I am just naturally so insubordinate and argumentative. So, if some young person is called and is willing to defend me and us, why should I care whether that person has blue, brown, or green eyes, is right or left-handed, is straight or gay? That never made any sense to me.
2. As a taxpayer, much of what I earn and pay in taxes goes to defense. I help pay for some very expensive specialized training. I resent that 14,000 specialists that I paid to train were fired.
Can we have the Arabic translators back now? How crazy was that?
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