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Veterans deserve so much more, gay or straight. According to ABC News, an estimated 100,000 servicemen (and servicewomen) have been discharged from the armed…
ABC News(HUBBARDSTON, Mass.) -- For former Navy sailor Annie Reyes, seeing the words on paper still stings: "Reason for discharge: homosexual conduct." "We were in Bahrain in the middle of the ocean, and they're like, 'This is the perfect time to kick someone out for being gay,'" Reyes, 40, said of her 2009 dismissal from the USS Bataan under the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. "Even right now, I don't qualify to get my full benefits because I didn't get a chance to serve the four years," said the former electrician's mate and married mother of two in an interview. ...
For former Navy sailor Annie Reyes, seeing the words on paper still stings: "Reason for discharge: homosexual conduct." "We were in Bahrain in the middle of the ocean, and they're like, 'This is the perfect time to kick someone out for being gay,'" Reyes, 40, said of her 2009 dismissal from the USS Bataan under the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. More than a decade after Congress ended the military's ban on gay service members, Reyes and thousands of other LGBTQ veterans like her are still fightin