Monday, August 13, 2012
Human rights New general acknowledges homosexuality at promotion
Posted by Max Brantley on Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:23 AM
Tammy Smith became the Army's first acknowledged gay general Friday in a ceremony in which her wife pinned on her star.
Whatever happened to the predictions of the end of the military as we know it from the end of discrimination in the ranks?
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