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2006. i know this is the first time you've talked about it on television. why is you decided to come forward in this way now and tell your story? >> for a variety of reasons. there's tremendous momentum that is going on right now in the house as well as the senate and also in the pentagon and the administration. there's a great deal of movement right now and impetus to timely get this ball rolling forward. partly from the senate, great staffers there as well as in the house. there are key organizations that have been working hard behind this. service members united. service members defense net...

Hands right now? the executive director of service members legal defense network and peter spring the senior fellow for policy at the family research council. you served in the military. you were in the army. where were you stationed? what kind of unit were you in? >> i was in the infantry in south korea, 7th infantry division. i was a sharpshooter. >> as a gay man, what was it like? you were not in the open obviously. what was your experience in that regard? what did you learn in terms of this issue of whether gay people should be allowed to serve openly? >> by and large, even in the '60s, ch...

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Issue for many years, especially service members legal defense network's been working on don't ask, don't tell since 1993 and the repeal part for five or six years now. this year we've given it our all and we still continue to. and that's not over yet. we'll still keep going on with the fight. >> david hall of the service members legal defense network. thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> for more on the politics of today's failure, let's turn to the washington bureau chief for mother jones magazine. david, good evening. >> good evening, keith. >> do you agree with former sergeant hall that ...

>> the senate majority leader harry reid reserved his ability to bring up the same vote again and some opponents of repeal believe there could be a chance to revisit the decision in december once the pentagon completes its study on how to lift the ban on gays serving openly in the military. the reminder of don't ask, don't tell would not have happened until 60 days after that pentagon review came in, yet it still drew objections from senators like john mccain. from gay rights advocates today obvious frustration. the democrats have been against don't ask, don't tell for more than a decade. why ...