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![Gay Veteran Reflects On Life In And Out Of The Navy.](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/JimDarbyHeadshot.jpg)
Gay Veteran Reflects On Life In And Out Of The Navy.
1950s: Sailor Spends A Night In Jail After Gay Bar Is Raided. In 1952, I received what we call the SSS, Selected Service System envelope. Every young man who got one of those, of...
![Remembering Life Under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”: “I Don’t Got Time For This. I’m Not Going To Hide It.”](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/GeorgeAgundezHeadshot.jpg)
Remembering Life Under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”: “I Don’t Got Time For This. I’m Not Going To Hide It.”
My name is George Agundez. I am from Calexico, California. Growing up, you know, I used to go to church and I would enjoy going to church. But there was always that time where I w...
![Satellite overhead image of Texas from Google Earth 2022](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Texas.png)
I’m From Borger, TX.
I should never have made it, according to the doctors who treated me so many years ago for third degree burns on my back and buttocks after I was run over by a car at the age of 5...
![State Satellite overhead image from Google Earth 2022](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Michigan.png)
I’m From Dearborn, MI.
“I stand for excellence and the fair treatment of all.” Dismissed. The last verse of the sailor’s creed was still ringing in my ear as I ran upstairs to my barracks room. Ju...
![I’m From Den Helder, Netherlands.](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/placeholder.jpg)
I’m From Den Helder, Netherlands.
How do you come out when you are a Navy officer? When you are sailing on a frigate with 250 men whose biggest insult to swing at each other is, “Yo, homo.”? But you also think...