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sarge43

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14. A few years ago she would have been kicked out

Reply to Stargazer09 (Reply #10)

Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:29 PM

Aug 2012

and the service would have been short a good soldier. Bigotry: It hurts all of us.

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