Society is crumbling from within! Save yourself!

Today marked the first day that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was officially repealed. A Clinton-era compromise (Republicans and centrist Democrats didn't want gay men and women serving in the military at ALL) that allowed gay people to serve in the military starting in the early 90s, DADT has utterly failed to make the military more stable, us safer, and cost the U.S. government millions of dollars in lost investment in trained personnel and more importantly the loss of tens of thousands of brave men and women who were willing to fight and die on behalf of our country.

This is indeed an historic moment; one that gets close to Truman's achievement of desegregating the Army in the 1950s. So here comes the mass moral decay of our country and the dissolve of unit cohesion, right? Watch the video below of a current U.S. soldier being unburdened by just telling the truth about who he is.

My favorite moment -

Soldier: "Do you want to tell Mom for me?
Dad: Laughter..."I don't believe so..."

It's time to say "Thank You"

I'll never forget the day when my dad brought me to Westover Airforce Base to say thank you to the troops returning from the Iraq-Kuwait war a.k.a. Operation Desert Storm.  It meant a lot just to say thank you for all of the risks those young men and women took just to keep us safe in the world.

Thanks to the Obama administration and the Bush administration, as of today most our troops are finally coming home from Iraq as Operation Iraqi Freedom has ended! (Trust me, if it was a McCain administration, that deadline would have vanished faster than Bill Clinton into a strip club.)

Here are some various organizations to help you say thanks to our brave men and women in uniform. The ones below span from donating your frequent flyer miles or volunteering at a welcome event at BWI.  Either way, find a way to donate some money or volunteer your time just to say "thanks".

www.uso.org
www.yellowribbonfund.com
www.fisherhouse.org/programs/heromiles.html
www.operationwelcomehomemd.org
http://projectevergreen.com/gcft/