... documents were deemed as "lost" by different military services. "Coming Out Under Fire" hit close to home for me. As having been in the Army for seven years as a lesbian, I can definitely relate to all the panic and fear these military members felt in World War II. I did not have ... to deal with a psychiatric screening when I enlisted April 2, 2007. Instead of having someone ask me "Why do you want to join?" and ... the armed forces but before considering this a bias I understand the fact that "identifying lesbians was not an easy task" (32) and that you could not tell them apart from t...

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