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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!fritzs
- From: fritzs@microsoft.com (Fritz Sands)
- Subject: Re: Military info needed
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.220806.12387@microsoft.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:08:06 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <19921112164502ECL4JN2@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> <1992Nov13.170045.899@PacBell.COM> <43@bbx.basis.com>
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- In article <43@bbx.basis.com> scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker) writes:
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- | A while back, Barbara Walters interviewed "Stormin'" Normin about
- | overturning the ban. He was against it because it would cause
- | "morale" problems. In other words, the straight boyz wouldn't get
- | along with 'em. Some gay-positive heterosexuals watching with
- | me started to (reluctantly) buy into that - until I reminded them that
- | was the "official" reason for not allowing blacks to serve with whites
- | several decades ago (the white boyz wouldn't get along with 'em).
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- So, would the military instead like to form all-gay units, just as the
- pre-Truman military had all-black units?
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- The Sacred Band of Thebes gets reborn!
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- Fritz
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