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KLAY: Brandon Anderson served in the Army for almost five years, from 2002 to 2008. He did several tours of duty in Iraq. His path into the military was unusual, and it had a lot to do with...law enforcement. The police have played an outsized role in shaping his destiny, and the destiny of his family.
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ANDERSON: I was able to live on my own during that time because I had a partner. My best friend ran away with me, which is something you really only hear in movies, right. You know, this is a person that I met for the first time in the third grade English class, right? He was this tall, skinny, big headed black boy that had this annoying laugh. And the only reason I paid attention to him was because of this annoying ass laugh.
ANDERSON: I remember going to a store and stealing some roses and Cheerios, which was his favorite cereal. And yeah, got caught. I got caught and the police came. They caught me. I got put in juvenile detention center, and my father came to pick me up because they had to release you to a parent.
ANDERSON: It was there that a recruiter came to me and was like, hey, you want to join the Army? I thought this is exactly what I need more of. I need this because the reason I'm not successful, the reason I'm a bad kid, is because I don't have discipline and structure in my life. And I also was excited about having a regular paycheck that I didn't have to worry about where I was going to get my next meal. I said yes, and the rest was history.
ANDERSON: It was the thing that I cared most about being a part of a family, being close to people, sharing in experiences, even though they were not the best of conditions. And then having a place to call home.
ANDERSON: All of the things they said you needed to be good at. I was not only good at, I was great at, so I was an expert marksman. When it came to physical fitness, I mean there was no one better in the nine week period I was there. There's no one better who could do more push ups, more sit ups and run a faster two mile. Right. And also keep in mind that when it comes to being black during basic training, I had a black drill sergeant. I didn't consider myself less important or less valued because I had seen this person who was in power, who looked like me.
ANDERSON: Being queer was not a part of my identity at the time I was in the US Army in the very beginning, at least. I just knew that I had fallen in love with my best friend who happened to be a guy and it was the very first time anything like that had ever happened to me. Even at 18 years old, I didn't know how to describe myself--what I liked or anything like that at the time.
KLAY: So in the 1990s, Bill Clinton changed the rules. The military was no longer allowed to ask service members about their sexuality, and would not prioritize investigations of suspected gay service members.
ANDERSON: By that time I had fallen in love with my best friend. I knew that I wanted to be with this man at 19 years old. So when I was in Wiesbaden and I got shipped out, I was really sad about not being close to him and being the person he is, he was like, okay, I'll get a job in Wiesbaden. He left Oklahoma, went to Wiesbaden, and he was a painter, stayed there for three months and then went back to renew his passport, came back another three months. By the sixth month I thought, wow, we can't keep getting hotels. And I can't keep just sneaking off. And he can't live with me in the barracks. (LAUGHS) Right. And so what we ended up doing is I got a second job as a furniture salesman. I learned German and my time there was spent selling furniture and being a soldier.
ANDERSON: So my daytime job was being in the Army, dressed in camouflage, preparing for war. And my evening job, my afternoon to evening job was in a furniture store. And that helped pay for an apartment that he and I could live in off base. So frankly, that policy forced me to build a life outside of my military family. I had a double life.
ANDERSON: The work is already isolating because after you set up the satellite, you kind of just sit there until something goes wrong. Lots of people might think, oh, that's really easy. Uh, well one, it's boring. You got to find some things to, like, take your mind off of being in 138 degree weather in the middle of the desert. But then also during those times, if any mortar attacks happen, as they did, you think, wow, it's only me and you out here. So if anything go down, like either you going to do it or I'm going to do it and like, hey, I don't know. So you get to learn really quick who your partner is and sort of that you can depend on them or that you cannot depend on them. I don't think I ever got to a point where I could walk out of my truck and, and not be afraid that that might be the last time I do.
ANDERSON: And I told him, this person is not someone who's just my friend. This is a person who I've spent the last 12 years of my life with and we're going to get married. And he went to go tell the commander. I thought he was going to go to my commanding officer and ask if I could get the leave I needed.
KLAY: What he got instead was an inquisition about his pending marital status. The commanding officer told Brandon if he tried to go see his fianc, he would have to leave the Army. And Brandon told them he had every intention of going anyway.
ANDERSON: My partner died while I was in the air on the plane heading to see him. And when I landed is when I learned that he had passed. After the service I went back to Washington. I spent two years just being depressed, clinically depressed.
ANDERSON: But the other reason that you don't want to dishonorable discharge is because you were not dishonorable in serving your country. That being queer and being honorable are two things that can exist together.
ANDERSON: I defended that case for eight or nine months. So it took time for them to put me out. It was not a week. And so the eight or nine months, as I'm waiting, that was some of the more difficult times in the Army because word got around that I was gay. That's when I heard the slurs. That's when I heard the little sly comments that people make. But there were still also people in the Army who didn't know I was queer but also didn't care that I was queer and I got a little closer to them as well.
ANDERSON: In a sense, I think the Army really did a fantastic job of embodying the very nature of homophobia, misogyny, and racism that this country currently drives on. And it did it in a way that did not have to tell you can't be gay. That did not have to tell you outright that you can't be a woman or that you can't be black. But it did all the things required to make sure that you knew that without ever making a sound.
KLAY: Brandon is still very much a part of that community. In 2017 he founded Raheem, an organization and website for reporting police misconduct. It also helps people in crisis find alternatives to calling the police.
KLAY: American Veteran is a production of Insignia Films and PRX for GBH. Leah Williams did the interview with Brandon Anderson. The lead podcast producer is Curtis Fox, the composer and sound designer is Ian Coss, and the executive producers for Insignia Films are Amanda Pollak and Leah Williams, who also did the interview with Brandon Anderson. Thanks to Kathleen Horan and Matt Gottesfeld for their research. For GBH, Devin Maverick Robins is managing producer and Judith Vechione and Elizabeth Dean are executive producers.
KLAY: Funding for American Veteran: Unforgettable Stories was provided by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding was provided by The Wexner Family Charitable Fund, Battelle Memorial Institute, JPMorgan Chase, and Analog Devices.
KLAY: For more powerful memories from veterans, visit PBS.org/American Veteran, where you can also watch the American Veteran television series and digital short films. You can also learn more by using #AmericanVeteranPBS.
Built in 1772, this Georgian-style double house was the town home of Thomas Heyward, Jr., one of four South Carolina signers of the Declaration of Independence. The property features the only 1740s kitchen building open to the public in Charleston as well as formal gardens featuring plants commonly used in the South Carolina Lowcountry in the late 18th century.
Built in 1772, this Georgian-style double house was the town home of Thomas Heyward, Jr., one of four South Carolina signers of the Declaration of Independence. A patriot leader and artillery officer with the South Carolina militia during the American Revolution, Heyward was captured when the British took Charleston in 1780. He was exiled to St. Augustine, Florida, but was exchanged in 1781.
The City rented this house for George Washington's use during the President's week-long Charleston stay, in May 1791, and it has traditionally been called the "Heyward-Washington House." Heyward sold the house in 1794 to John F. Grimke, also a Revolutionary War officer and father of Sarah and Angeline Grimke, the famous abolitionists and suffragettes. It was acquired by the Museum in 1929, opened the following year as Charleston's first historic house museum, and was recognized as a National Historic Landmark in 1978.
Here you will see a superb collection of historic Charleston-made furniture including the priceless Holmes Bookcase, considered one of the finest examples of American-made colonial furniture. The property also features the only 1740s kitchen building open to the public in Charleston as well as formal gardens featuring plants commonly used in the South Carolina Lowcountry in the late 18th century.
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