Margarethe Cammermeyer continues to tell her truth
Retired Army Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, pictured, received a standing ovation at a women's confrerence at Texas Tech after she spoke for almost an hour about being a lesbian and recounting her fight with the military to accept gays into the service. "What I have come to is the mantra that if you are uncomfortable, that's where you need to be," she said. "I was married with children, had a late-in-life 'ah-ha, I shouldn't be here,' and after my divorce realized that I was a lesbian," Cammermeyer said. Hoping to become a general she applied for a top secret clearance. "In applying for that security clearance, I told them that I was a lesbian. This was not a popular thing to do in the military." Lubbock Online
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