“Anderson did not enter the Army acknowledging his own sexuality. Ironically, it was the military’s emphasis on integrity that gave Anderson the self-confidence to accept who he really was. Those same values became his undoing. He sought to uphold the principles instilled in him, and as a result, became increasingly aware of the lie he lived… Anderson’s experience turned him against broader American policy, especially in Iraq. ‘I was naïve. I fought for the freedom of others while my own country denied me basic rights. The whole system is unjust,’ he states.”
— Fellow Fletcherite Sasha Suderow writing about the US military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. The policy, which entrenches a hypocritical and self-defeating form of military masculinization, is under new scrutiny as President Obama, Secretary of Defense Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Mullen all support overturning it.
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