When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
A gay Vietnam Veteran
Leonard Matlovich (1943-1988)
Leonard Matlovich, recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star was discharged from the Air Force in 1975 for telling his superiors that he was gay.
"The most eloquent and most convincing testimony against the policy of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' comes, as such testimony usually does, from those who have paid the highest price for the policy's failings. And the most compelling I have ever read is on a tombstone in Congressional Cemetery, not far from the Capitol."
