Mission possible: the story of repealing don't ask, don't tell - C. Dixon Dixon Osburn

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• Under Don't ask, don't tell, the Pentagon discharged 2-4 service members every day for being gay.
• Some were subjects of witch hunts.
• Others faced criminal charges.
• Many endured harassment, assault and threats.
• Mission Possible takes readers behind the scenes as Servicemembers Legal Defense Network lawyers repeatedly rushed to the aid of LGBT clients and demanded justice from commanders and Congress.
• Repealing the ban on open service by lesbian, gay and bisexual service members was a stunning reversal of a law enacted just 17 years prior.
• It remains the most significant pro-lesbian, gay, bisexual legislation Congress has passed.
• How did it happen?
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• Dixon Osburn's Mission Possible describes the strategy that he and Michelle Benecke, co-founders of SLDN devised to overcome impossible odds.