Comments | kho: holy shit, it happened

kho

holy shit, it happened

Dec 19, 2010 00:34

They actually repealed DADT. It's official now right? I'm reading this right? Article. Wow. I kind of never thought the day would actually come, though, it should have come a long time ago. I find myself happy and yet also aggravated at the same time, because this shouldn't BE an issue, it never should have been ( Read more... )

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fanarts_series December 19 2010, 07:04:32 UTC

I respect you because you fought your dad without blink and argued with intelligence.
Bravo, your nigger and Jewish argument is smart and so correct.
Like i say, i don't care if the guy is gay or black or whatever, when he fight with honor for his country he bleed like the perfect asshole hetero guy near him, war is like that. I'm french but today i so proud of your senate.
Hope the things are going to be better for them and we have to be vigilant against the bullies.

Love your little DADT fic after repeal, it's excellent.
John, seriously, everybody knew, dear love.

Bravvo et merci, infiniment.

kho December 19 2010, 07:35:09 UTC

My Dad is the kind of strong personality that hardly anyone is willing to argue with him, and when they do they always wind up backing down. He's smart, he's well versed, he speaks well, and he's got that kind of gravitas that says "you will not win this argument, might as well stop trying." Dad has told me more than once that the ONLY person whose ever gone toe to toe with him and never backed down out of intimidation was me. I'm quite damn proud of that. It's so funny, that me and him are exactly the same, and yet not. lol.

If I'm honest I'm a bit scared for the boys that come out thinking that things have changed. The mentality is going to be the same and while the enlisted men their own age may or may not be more tolerant, I kind of doubt the Generals/Colonels/LtC's are going to be, as they're older, more set in their ways, and in charge. I'm just... nervous. I hope I'm underestimating my country's military as far as tolerance goes, but eek. Kinda don't think I am.

em_kellesvig December 19 2010, 12:21:59 UTC

I have to laugh about your argument with your dad. My dad is just the opposite. He was in the first Army desegregated boot camp back in the early 1950s, a gawky kid from a farm in Wisconsin who'd never seen a black person, and didn't understand the fuss.

He'd tell stories about his Army days when we were kids and the names all became as familiar as our own. Recently, I asked him about some of those guys, about serving in the first integrated boot camp, and he said, "Yeah, so-and-so was black. So was ___. The guy who taught me to play ping pong was a longshoreman from Jersey. He was black. So-and-so was Korean. And so-and-so was gay."

What?

"Oh, yeah, he was gay. Do you think your generation invented gay? They drafted everyone. And the rules were the same. Whatever you did, you did it off-duty and off-base. No one cared."

This was sixty years ago.My oldest brother served in the Army in the 70s; my younger brother served in the Navy in the 80s. Both served with gays. No one cared then either ( ... )