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Logical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-11 06:20 PM
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Active duty gays say coming out has been non-event
This is GREAT NEWS and a good story!

Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan kept it simple and sweet. She was eight months into a nine-month assignment in Kuwait, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had just informed Congress that the U.S. armed forces were ready to integrate openly gay troops.

Morgan decided the time was right to come out to her commander. The photograph of her wife and 4-year-old daughter she kept hidden on her desk helped her do it.

"I said, 'Sir, I would like to introduce you to someone. This is my family,'" Morgan recalled of her July conversation with her boss, an Army colonel leading a 2,400-soldier brigade. "He said, 'Charlie, you have a beautiful family. You know, "don't ask, don't tell" prevented me from getting to know you.'"

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44921415/ns/us_news-life/#.TptmLpsr2so
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-11 06:22 PM
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1. As we expected it would be
It was only the anti-gays preaching that it would be the apocalypse.
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Logical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-11 06:26 PM
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3. True. And the IDIOT GOP leaders.
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Logical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-11 07:35 PM
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6. I also bet we hear nothing from the GOP people who said it was a mistake!
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-11 07:55 PM
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7. Perish the thought
God's own mouthpieces admit they're mistaken? :rofl:
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-11 06:23 PM
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2. K/R (nt)
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Ohio Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-11 06:26 PM
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4. K&R - nt
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-11 06:32 PM
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5. Kick
:kick:
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