The story of Corporal Andrew Wilfahrt, a gay servicemember who died in the closet in Afghanistan, months after President Obama signed repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
"Like all of us Andrew had a height, a weight, an eye color, a hair color, a creed, an ethnicity and a sexuality. As his sister said, being gay was the least interesting thing about him. He was a soldier, he died with his boots on. He is now just a statistic to this nation in yet another one of its ongoing conflicts. I miss him, he was my confidant, my friend and most of all my son. But he loved his life in the Army, it had become his life arc, and he walked that road to show the Taliban the 3rd Platoon owned it, and they still do." ~ Jeff Wilfahrt, Andrew's father
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