The irony is that I’m O- and used to give faithfully, but now I’m permanently barred because I served my nation and “might” have mad cow disease because I served in Turkey at a specific time... As if.
I am similarly banned, though not for serving my country, just for living over there. That rule is so ignorant that it should be changed WAY before the USA adds homosexuals to the blood donor list.
Anyone in Europe (I didn’t know it extended as far as Turkey) during the years where there was a mad cow scare in England is banned. Yet very few of those nations import any British beef. It makes no sense.