DON'T ASK-DON'T TELL /AMERICAN TRUE COLORS DON'T RUN

This Don't Ask - Don't Tell Policy is in the spot light again. "American true colors don't run from the truth" is becoming a statement heard by military wanting change.

We can change the policy but it will have to come from the Commander in Chief, President Barack Obama.

We are all Americans first and before that we are all men and women, with issues that need to be addressed now because there is too much red tape being wrapped around human beings civil rights. It should be every beings right to tell the truth.

Those who are in office have a responsibility to up hold the justice, democracy, and this republic for all citizens of these United States. Not just some because it feels right or because of popular constituent votes or polls taken. Doing what is right and telling the truth was what this country was founded upon.

Many arguments can be supported on both sides of the gender issues that we are facing in our future.

1st Lt. Dan Choi who graduated as an Officer and chose to serve the greater good and to be a part of something greater than himself.

I know it feels like to take the oath to defend this country against both foreign and domestic enemies.

We are born in a manner of speaking with hardware and software. Sometimes it seems that there some of us are born with software that does not match the hardware.

There is research about those who seem to be chemically wired to prefer the company of the same sex more so than the opposite when it comes to companionship. There are various views on why this has always been. The female spirit dominant in a male physical mind at birth is much like a computer that includes the software not just the hardware. In other words, we are researching more than just physical appearance. The mind and how we think may have more to do with how we are wired from birth.

It is time that this world get right with the truth that there are many spiritual good beings that believe in family, God, and country and somewhere along the way, this country got it into rules, laws, policies, procedures and into the government personnel to right and accept such a thing in our laws that some of our children that grow up whether they become men or women should not be outward in appearance or action with who they really are.

The time has come for Americans to accept our truth. We have true colors and we don't run and hide from that which we do not understand. We prefer to know the truth.

The world prefers to know the truth.

It is the truth that is at the heard of this policy "Don't Ask - Don't Tell." We have changed with the times and people in general are more accepting of what is different and not understood.

Our young adults in the military are told to don´t tell if someone ask if they are gay, lesbian, transgender. The "Don´t Ask, Don´t Tell" issue in the military is ridiculous. Somewhere along the way someone decided that we may know by looking at a person, or listening to them talk, that they may be gay, lesbian or transgender that we should simply allow them to enlist and serve their country.

If, those who are in paid professions as recruiters who wear the military uniforms and allowed these people into the military to serve our country, then they apparently decided that they were fit to pass the physical. This is proof enough that if they passed the physical that they have what it takes to serve our country. We know that they have to have proof of citizenship and that should be all they need. It should not be in their contract or even mentioned to these beings that they should not ask and don´t tell if anyone ask about whether they are gay, lesbian, transgender.

If someone ask if you are a woman, black, Chinese, Mexican instead of African American, Asian, or Latino is this wrong? Gender issues and sexual preferences are not necessarily the same issue but it appears that our military has double standards.

This 1st Lt. Dan Choi looks Asian to me but I heard he was a translator and was needed by our military. Just because he has chosen to tell when asked if he is gay should not be a reason to put him out of the military. I see no different than putting me in the military as a woman with me serving with many gay men in the medical field. I made it 8 years with knowing many military gay and lesbian both who served as professionals and did their jobs. This is based on experience. They were not treated any different in the medical field in the Navy. The Army should not treat they personnel any different because their troops are declaring the truth. I saw this 1st Lt. Dan Choi of the U.S. Army Reserve on television and he represents many people who feel the same way as I do but do not have a chance to speak out on television.

It was not a choice it was how they are born. We are all both 50% male and 50% female from birth as creation with sperm and ovum that makes a fertilized embryo or egg.

This is a Human Right issue. Things have changed. Civil Rights, Human Rights, Freedom of Speech if not written into military rights will need to be. We will have to address all the changes that our culture has always known about but kept hidden in the shadows. This "Don't Ask - Don't Tell" policy of the military is only the tip of the iceberg.

Troops are smarter and better trained than we were in the 80´s. I saw women being put on ships just to meet a man and get pregnant that was more of an issue than gay men in the Navy. The men were complaining about women in the military is that still an issue too?

In the news on the Internet the civil unrest on some major American Issues may become global issues. Which way will President Obama go with the issues of our times. These are the times that will try men´s souls, and women´s too. I was not a hippy, and a bra burned in the 60´s because I was living with the Viet Nam War barefoot and pregnant while my husband worked for NASA to stay out of the draft. I wanted to go to war and could not because I was a woman with children. I know from experience. I am 57 years old now.

I have had experiences out of body, near death experiences, and extra terrestrial contact experiences and that is the truth so help me God. I speak out now because it is the truth.

On Gay Issues, Obama Says "Don't Ask" The president, who favors civil unions but not marriage for gay couples, promised to repeal the "don't ask" policy as well as the Defense Of Marriage Act (DOMA), another Clinton-era policy, which requires that the federal government not recognize "a relationship between persons of the same sex as a marriage." 

Gay Groups Growing Increasingly Impatient "The Court is signaling the other two branches of government that any change to this policy is going to have to come from them, the executive and legislative branches," CBS News chief legal analyst Andrew Cohen, who adds that the decision is not an endorsement of the policy.  "The Court isn't endorsing the policy - it's simply choosing as it usually does to stay out of military policies. Historically the Justices have been willing to give great deference to the White House in military affairs," Cohen writes. 

CBS News, Brian Montopoli, writes, Perhaps the highest-profile recent discharge has been that of Lt. Dan Choi, a linguist fluent in Arabic who publicly announced his homosexuality in March. In April of last year, the president explicitly addressed the discharge of officers like Choi in an interview with The Advocate magazine. 

"We're spending large sums of money to kick highly qualified gays or lesbians out of our military, some of whom possess specialties like Arab-language capabilities that we desperately need," he said. Roughly 12,500 service members have been discharged under the "don't ask" policy since it was implemented, among them 800 "mission critical" troops.  As long as the promise of equality for all remains unfulfilled, all Americans are affected," he said. "If we can work together to advance the principles upon which our Nation was founded, every American will benefit. During LGBT Pride Month, I call upon the LGBT community, the Congress, and the American people to work together to promote equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity." 

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs indicated that the administration is working with the military to end the policy in a responsible way. He also said that doing so requires a "legislative vehicle." (Legislation has been introduced in the House, but not the Senate, to change the law.) 

As I stated in my last article on American Chronicle, The United States government needs to be revamped and this includes policies, and procedures not just the laws and statutes. I love my country and I am proud to be an American Woman! I am also a proud American woman advocate for all human rights for the entire world. I am a voting constituent here me. President Obama ran on "CHANGE" well,

"President Obama as Commander in Chief, Sir, with all due respect, now is the time for all good men and women be they straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender to come to the aid of their country to assist in creating a better world for the greater good and the entire global community."

"Don't Ask- Don't Tell " policy needs to be changed ASAP. There are laws that need to be changed and the military policy on allowing bisexuals, gays, lesbians, transgenders into the military and telling them not to tell is one of those issues that we as Americans have not been willing to face in the past. But, times have changed. As the global community is more accepting of the truth of all humankind on earth, we will grow into recognizing our true colors that don't run. We will become more aware and braver in our efforts for seeing the world as it really is. We have people that are different from the way we use to think. We should accept the truth and correct our mistakes.