But I don’t think you can be upset about your service, because ultimately it was your choice. Marines #2: "When I went into the recruiter’s office to sign all the paperwork and we got to ’Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ I started reading through it, because this was significant to me. I was raised by an attorney-it’s important to know what you’re signing. I had made it about halfway through and the recruiter was frustrated with how long it was taking me, and he said, ’Well, basically, are you gay?’ I hadn’t even joined the military yet, and here he had asked me! If my life had been a movie, that would be the dramatic foreshadowing of what was to come. Many gay servicemen in the modern era-including Eric Alva (Marines, 1991–2004)-have completed long military careers without their sexuality ever being revealed.
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