Reactions.
“‘Don’t cry,’ a 21-year-old specialist, one of the lieutenant’s confidants, told his boss jokingly when news broke that 65 senators had voted to repeal ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.’ “‘I’m completely numb,’ was all the lieutenant could mutter. “Across the world, other gay troops whose lives, careers and relationships have been indelibly, if sometimes quietly, shaped [...]