If and when the current “don’t ask don’t tell”is abandoned by our current lame duck Congress, our poll of fighting men in Afghanistan and around its landscape...on ground in the air...suggests matinee idols like Charles Boyer ....his Pepe Le Moko making love to sultry Hedy LaMarr in the Casbah........while his disciple “I taught him all he knows” Rock Hudson sensuously kindled a flame with Doris Day in Stanley Shapiro’s “Pillow talk”
“And why not. Their autographs on our hand grenades mine sweeping tanks would be
explosive. The coefficient of expansion. Sure alzheimers and schizophrenia is at the top of our front line menu.. Remember Kirk Douglas and Adolph Menjou in “ Paths of Glory”
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“Would you mind serving in the trenches with the likes of aggressive gay and lesbian partners.?”
“Not at all,” said Studs Lonigan, the hero of James Farrell Chicago turn of the century novel. “Maybe their presence would contribute to our straight interior arguments.. Maybe not If the platoon’s thinking as one would be jeopardized...... As we measure their sacrifices in the calibration of our squad’s life...its soul searching identity.”
‘As long as they don’t alter our thrust. Change the environment’s delicate balance,” said Augie March, the hero of Saul Bellow’s “The world of Augie March”. .
Sexual orientation and its response could be a celebration of “art being human & color blind” against an enemy that blows up their own people peoples as weapons of mass destruction that got this voluntary army here in the first place.
Rosie O’Donnell Ellen Degeneres making their chops....
”Where are you, Red Ryder?” .
“We give up, man.woman gays lesbians homosexuals you name it.,” said the Taliban state of mind ” into Ben Ladin’s 9/11 ambush..waving the white flag of submission.
Unconditional surrender. .
With our mixed band of soldiers in the Afghan mountains, December 5, 2010.
