Monday, January 28, 2008

Deb Price: Military's hostile climate victimizes families of gays

The three moms talk glowingly about their sons.

One son is Darren Manzella, a decorated Army medic who, while in Iraq, provided medical services to U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians during more than 100 street patrols in Baghdad.

Then there's Barry Winchell, a private first class who had just one more test to pass before achieving his dream of being an Army helicopter pilot.

And Allen Schindler, a 22-year-old Navy radioman, who planned to go to college to pursue his passion of studying animals.

Like most parents whose children enlist in the military, these moms were proud but worried.


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