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Don't Ask, Do Tell!

Don't Ask, Do Tell!

Bonzo, William

Paperback

GLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1451571909
ISBN13: 9781451571905
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 27 2010
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
William Bonzo's biting, informative, and sometimes riotous memoir, Don't Ask, Do Tell: When I Finally Told the Military Kiss My Gay... aims directly at the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy previously enforced by the United States military. Bonzo was a Navy man before being outed and forced to leave the service. Until then, he had served his country honorably and enthusiastically. So how can a military that is dangerously short of personnel and engaged in several wars around the world afford to impose a weeding-out policy that not only de-militarizes talented leaders, but does so in an abrupt and emotionally brutal fashion? Reading this book, one is struck by the irony of training a man for years, bringing him to his peak of military knowledge and direction, and then dismissing him for his sexual orientation. Despite a light and often funny voice, the underlying message remains: Don't Ask/Don't Tell was unethical, pragmatically absurd, and often devastating to those who were targeted.

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