Serving In Silence

VIETNAM VETERAN

RECIPIENT OF THE BRONZE STAR

MOTHER OF FOUR

VA NURSE OF THE YEAR

DISCHARGED

In 1989, during a routine interview for top-secret security clearance, U.S. Army Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer revealed that she was a lesbian-and began an ordeal that, despite her distinguished twenty-six-year military career, resulted in her discharge from the U.S. Army. Her dismissal garnered intense media coverage, stirred debate all the way to the presidency, and ignited her activism that continues ...