7/22/09 Meria interviews Lt.Dan Choi, Board Member of Knights Out, West Point Graduate, Iraq war 2006-07 now facing expulsion for being gay; American exceptionalism; equal rights; discrimination insults our country and soldiers; DADT – ties the hands of their leaders; Westpoint “A Cadet Cannot Lie”; DADT forces a soldier to lie; His crime was falling in love; Multi lingual hero; why hide love? living under the toxic poison of DADT; kicked out for being openly gay; silence is a wrong; different types of discharges in the service; what cost to the veteran? no soldier stands alone campaign; how his parents took his coming out; religious damage to families; how to help, and a famous Iraqi poem.
Lt.Dan Choi
