Major M. Witt - TELL: LOVE, DEFIANCE AND THE MILITARY TRIAL AT THE TIPPING POINT FOR GAY RIGHTS - Hardcover FACULTY AUTHORS University of Warwick

University of Warwick

Holly Hughes

Covering a broad chronological

ISBN: 978-1-6025-8805-9

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Major M. Witt - TELL: LOVE, DEFIANCE AND THE MILITARY TRIAL AT THE TIPPING POINT FOR GAY RIGHTS - Hardcover FACULTY AUTHORS University of WarwickMajor Margaret Witt, Nursing Degree '86 ALUM CHALLENGES 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL' "In 1993 Margie Witt, a young Air Force nurse, was chosen as the face of the Air Forces Cross into the Blue recruitment campaign. This was also the year that President Clintons plan for gays to serve openly in the military was quashed by an obdurate Congress, resulting in the blandly cynical political compromise known as Dont Ask, Dont Tell. Contrary to its intent, DADT