I’m happy about this news. Congratulations to all of you who serve our country with honor despite being treated as a second class citizen or as a ticking time bomb. For those of you for whom this comes too late, I’m sorry.

The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy is the first gay rights issue I can remember being aware of. I was in high school when President Clinton gave the executive order that created the policy, and while I understand that the military is inherently a conservative organization and lead by people a generation or more older than I am, it’s difficult for me to understand why a policy so medieval lasted so long, or that it even required debate before being repealed.