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[rm]

via 1_mad_squirrel:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bobandjack5-2009mar05,0,1874140.story

The year was 1951. The U.S. military had just declared homosexuality an "unacceptable risk" and dishonorably discharged about 2,000 men and women from the armed services.

It was the same year Army Sgt. Bob Claunch and his commanding officer, Lt. Jack Reavley, fell in love.

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[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Wow. I certainly hope they are able to marry.

If discovered, they could have been court-martialed.

Tangential point, though: even if gay relationships had been allowed, they would have been in trouble for fraternization, since of them was an officer and the other under his command. (Issue solved when one of the men left the military.)

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

There are not enough of these stories in the public sphere.

Seriously.

And I feel for these guys.