More on Lt. Dan Choi and the decision that he be dismissed for being gay.

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Courtesy of Dan ChoiNew York National Guardsman Lt. Dan Choi talks to children in Baghdad in 2007.

Military board in Syracuse recommends discharge for Lt. Dan Choi

A four-officer panel meeting at Hancock Air Base notified Choi at about 5 p.m. that it would recommend he be discharged because he has publicly said he is gay.

..."Choi, an Arabic-speaking officer who served for 15 months in Iraq as a member of Fort Drum's 10th Mountain Division before joining a New York National Guard unit based in Manhattan, said he would appeal to the higher-ranking officers to stay in the National Guard.

There is no deadline for a final decision in Choi's case. The fate of Choi and other gay and lesbian military personnel may ultimately lie with the White House and Congress, however.

..." Some members of Central New York's congressional delegation are taking active roles this year in efforts to repeal the policy.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who recently met with Choi in her Washington D.C. office, is working with Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., to draft legislation in the Senate that would do away with "don't ask, don't tell." Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., will support any effort to repeal the policy, a spokesman said Tuesday. In the House, Rep. Michael Arcuri, D-Utica, is among 150 co-sponsors of a bill that would repeal the policy. A spokesman for Rep. Dan Maffei, D-DeWitt, said Maffei would support the legislation, although he is not currently a co-sponsor.

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1. This sucks to no end...n/t

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2. no pun intended, allegedly n/t