“My biggest fear is what happens when we are at home and they don’t really need me any more,” Just a Joe, the active duty soldier stationed in Baghdad, who you’ve grown to know on Queerty, tells the Washington Post. Because even though they can’t do it openly, we need more people on the inside telling the story of DADT.

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