Air Force expelled her in 1955 for being a lesbian Now at 90 she's getting an honorable discharge

Wapo via Sfgate ^ | January 18, 2018 | Kyle Swenson

[Bigg Red]

Thank you.

[ltc8k6]

They probably figured “Feh, she’s 90, she won’t collect Vet benefits for very long, and we don’t want the PR blowback from saying no.”

Wouldn’t she be owed back benefits though?

If they have decided she was wrongly discharged, she could have all sorts of back pay and benefits due.

I would think the decision opens a can of worms.

[tbpiper]

I’m stealing that if you don’t mind.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Nobody has a “right” to an honourable discharge if they were breaking the rules in place.

[Buckeye McFrog]

If they have decided she was wrongly discharged, she could have all sorts of back pay and benefits due. I would think the decision opens a can of worms.

The case would take years to wind through the Fed Courts. She does not have years.

[hal ogen]

This stupid. It deserves what it got.

[Az Joe]

Fair enough.

[MortMan]

I do have a problem with it. She lied in order to enter the military back then. She had to - the question was in the enlistment papers.

The fact that she lied to get in makes her service less than honorable.

[DannyTN]

If she’s having a discharge, she should have that looked at.

[fwdude]

Stupid. So, can I get my speeding violation ex post facto dismissed because they raised the speed limit a few years later?

The law IN EFFECT at the time is just as valid.

[pfflier]

The big problem I have with this is that she enlisted under false pretenses to begin with. She lied about her sexual orientation outright. That most assuredly was a direct question during the enlistment process. We all remember that as well as bedwetting and talking in your sleep.

Why this is a big deal is many people lied about their age and served honorably even heroically in WWII, Korea and Viet Nam and the best they got was a general discharge. You want to fix something, fix that.

[gathersnomoss]

That rug has some age on it.

[Az Joe]

She paid the penalty for her lie by 62 years living with an Undesirable discharge. Time served

[Az Joe]

Then at least give her a General, under Honorable. 62 years living with an U.D. is punishment enough don’t you think?

[fwdude]

Does that allow her, assuming other qualification are met, to re-enlist in the armed services?

I wouldn't allow that.

[Az Joe]

Irrelevant non-sequiter

[DBeers]

Apparently, the military is still firmly infiltrated by Leftists. Those that suffer from the homosexual disorder should not serve in the military. The military should not be normalizing disordered behavior.

[ltc8k6]

“The case would take years to wind through the Fed Courts. She does not have years.”

But there must be a lot of people in the same situation that this ruling would set precedent for?

A court could easily rule that they are due a lot of money since they were denied years of pay and a 20 year retirement possibility. Or full retirement a lot earlier in one of the RIF periods.

[Elsie]

A California woman kicked out of the military 60 years ago for being a lesbian has finally had her rights restored.

And what RIGHTS would those be?

[Elsie]

Can you imagine the legal mayhem we would have today if slaves and slave owners from the pre-civil-war days were still alive?

You left out the, "Oh... Wait..."

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Who has to be alive?

There IS precedence...

Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.^[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes