Posted on 05/26/2010 6:02:37 AM PDT by Rufus2007
The U.S. military’s stance on homosexuality, often referred to as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” has gotten a good bit of attention from the mainstream media. And though the likes of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who has never actually served in the Armed Forces, has made ending the policy it one of her pet causes, there are some well-established voices that disagree with Defense Secretary Robert Gates decision to repeal the policy.
Former U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton, author of “When Hell was in Session,” who spent nearly eight years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, disagrees with that decision.
Denton, perhaps best known for a North Vietnamese TV interview in 1966, which he was forced to give as a prisoner of war, but used the opportunity to communicate by blinking his eyes in Morse code to spell out the word “t-o-r-t-u-r-e” to convey what his captors were doing to him and his fellow POWs, told the Culture & Media Institute on May 25 he thought ending the policy was a mistake, but still had high admirations for Gates.
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Can we please have a little truth in reporting occasionally?
My father, who spent 30 years in the Navy reserves and active duty during WWII always said that the Navy didn’t want openly gay men because it was concerned for the gay men’s safety.
He said if there was an openly gay man on a ship, the other men would throw him overboard.
Since the object of the military is to kill the enemy and break their things I fail to see how adding to that a sampling of the population that is less then 5% will improve on that! So, then the object must therefore be social engineering pure and simple.
Jeremiah Denton endured not just a long tenure as a POW but a VERY LONG time in a horrific prison. It took a terrible toll on him as it would any of us. Still he was later a US Senator from Alabama.
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