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What it's like to live under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Retired Navy Capt. Joan E. Darrah recounts her life inside the military’s legally-enforced closet. “Whenever the admiral would call me to his office, 99.9 percent of me was certain that it was to discuss an operational issue. But there was always that fear in the back of my mind that somehow I had been “outed,” and he was calling me to his office to tell me that I was fired.” (via Steve Silberman)

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