Comments on: Gay WWII Veteran Reflects on DADT Repeal http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2011/09/20/37224 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Sun, 19 May 2013 14:07:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Ray Harwick http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2011/09/20/37224/comment-page-1#comment-106724 Ray Harwick Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:02:38 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=37224#comment-106724 My husband is the same age as this guy and also a WWII veteran of the Air Force. I'm a Viet Nam era veteran. We've been watching the news all day with smiles on our faces but I keep thinking about my worst day in the service - the day the Leonard Matlovich story hit Time Magazine. I was in my 8th year of duty and the slurs and slime put me in a funk that, come to think of it, I really never got over. I loved my experience in the Air Force and I count it as the smartest move I ever made, but it was a humiliation beyond explanation to stand there with my mouth zipped for fear of being thrown to the ditch and have to endure the awful stuff I heard. To Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are ten times the man of courage I ever was. My husband is the same age as this guy and also a WWII veteran of the Air Force. I’m a Viet Nam era veteran. We’ve been watching the news all day with smiles on our faces but I keep thinking about my worst day in the service – the day the Leonard Matlovich story hit Time Magazine. I was in my 8th year of duty and the slurs and slime put me in a funk that, come to think of it, I really never got over. I loved my experience in the Air Force and I count it as the smartest move I ever made, but it was a humiliation beyond explanation to stand there with my mouth zipped for fear of being thrown to the ditch and have to endure the awful stuff I heard.

To Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are ten times the man of courage I ever was.

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