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New York Times: Charlie Morgan’s Battle
By Dorothy Samuels
There is nothing theoretical about the ongoing pain inflicted by the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law that bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages. Ask Charlie Morgan, a chief warrant officer in the Army National Guard, based in New Hampshire.
Ms. Morgan joined the Army just out of high school, in 1982, and spent a decade serving, including stints in the Reserves and National Guard. In 2004, while teaching at a Kentucky high school, she re-enlisted in the Army National Guard, knowing it meant going back to hiding her sexual identity under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” rule. “My country had been attacked, and I felt a patriotic duty to help protect it,” Ms. Morgan told me.
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