Fwd: My new boss
Daniel Larremore
From: Andy Flick <ajf...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:26 PM
Subject: My new boss
To: Iain Prendergast <iain.pre...@gmail.com>, Daniel Larremore <daniel.l...@gmail.com>, Kelley Greenman <kelley....@gmail.com>, Maryse Pearce <mshain...@gmail.com>
“Gay rights are the civil rights fight of our generation,” Moulton said. “We talked last weekend about the steady march toward freedom and justice with the anniversary of Selma. This is part of that march. We have made great progress, but we still have a long way to go.”
Moulton recalled that in 2007, combat veterans were being called back to active duty because there were not enough troops for the surge in Iraq. One of Moulton’s friends, Joe Donnelly, had left the Marines and come out of closet. Donnelly then received orders that would send him back to a war zone, but the military was still under the “don’t ask, don’t tell’’ policy.
“All he had to do was pick up the phone and say two words, ‘I’m gay,’ and he wouldn’t have had to go,” Moulton said. “He decided that he didn’t want anyone to go in his place, so he would re-hide this fundamental part of who he is so he could do another deployment. That took remarkable courage.”
Abel Samet
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