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Katherine Miller, Lesbian West Point Cadet, Can’t Go Home Again

I was shocked that I didn’t receive more support than that from my hometown. I think the Findlay area has been especially harsh on me – just really wary of what my intentions were. These are the people I spent most of my childhood growing up with … so I was hoping that Findlay would be able to accept me as one of their own and to support me in this. But I ended up getting some of my toughest critics from my hometown, and that personally disturbed me.

—Katherine Miller, the West Point cadet who quit over Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, saying the only place she didn’t find an outpouring of support was from her hometown, where she graduated from high school just two years ago [via]

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