Reply #8: actually I did praise him on the day it happened

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you, as per usual ignored it. I will link it for you shortly.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=433&topic_id=777270

Today, finally, gay service people can serve their country openly. Not only is this important for our service people who have served in silence since literally the beginning of the republic (Von Steuben was gay), but it is also important four our civil rights as a whole. This day was brought to us by many, many people. Chief among them are the generations of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines who fought this policy in courts and the court of public opinion. Some of the heavy hitters, but not a complete list, Leonard Matlovich, Margarethe Cammermeyer, Keith Meinhold, Allen Schindler, Dan Choi, Victor Fehrenbach, and the touching young man on youtube. Another group which deserves credit are the politicians which worked hard to get it passed. Chief in this club are Pelosi, Murphy, Lieberman, Reid, and Obama. An assist goes to those who did what can sometimes be the bravest thing a gay man can do, living out lives, in this case as teens. One big difference between 93 and now was that servicemen flipped from being nearly unamamously opposed to being largely in favor of gays serving openly. I am convinced that teens who were out in their small town, southern high schools have a big part to do with this change. Those very brave teens deserve some credit.

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bolding was mine. Nice try. Thought you would call me out for something but turns out, as nearly always, you just plain don't know what you are talking about.