Don't Ask, Don't Tell

I am personally disgusted with this law, without sounding like a toddler, it just isn't fair. These men and women are willingly risking their lives to protect EVERYONE in America; black, white, Asian, Muslim, tall, short, fat, skinny, prisoners, priests, gay, transexuals, the list can go on forever. Yet, even though they put their lives on the line everyday for us we want to discriminate and ask them to do one more thing while their busy in combat defending our country "oh, please don't be openly gay".

Almost every person in the military has some sort of skeleton in their closet that may be considered wrong or make others feel uncomfortable. In America, I feel that we have a problem discussing and accepting things that make others feel uncomfortable. For instance, I have been diagnosed with severe depression and I have been committed to a mental facility in the past. I'm not ashamed, it was the best thing that has ever happened to me, it changed my life. However, because of America's depiction of what a mental institution is like and what the people in there are assumed to be like, I could never really talk about it with my close friends and even some of my family because of how they would react. I don't care who knows I'm an open book and I'm not ashamed about something that truly benefited me and saved my life. But just because America deems it as inappropriate to talk about, I can't. 

Another thing that really bugged me in this article is one of the quick facts in which gay service members were allowed to serve in the 1940's throughout the Vietnam War because of the shortage. It is like they are second string quarterbacks, they play when we need them, but as soon as we don't, it's back to the closet they go. I admire those who are gay and are willing to serve a country that wants them to be hush about their sexuality, because if it was me, I can't say I would do the same.