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Oct. 22, 1998

Price of freedom

I was 19 years old when I serve in the Army (during the Vietnam War). We were there in part to uphold American beliefs in freedom and inalienable rights. But what price freedom? If it were "found out" that I was gay, then anyone would say I didn’t have the right to live here or there, work wherever, let alone be covered under "his" insurance plan. Yet, you still take my (our) money in taxes like everybody else. Doesn’t seem fair to me. Then you wonder why we protest and become vigilant!

J.C. Schulte, Kenwood
The Cincinnati Post
Oct. 22, 1998

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