Comments on: EXCLUSIVE: Response Letter From 2nd Lieutenant Sandy Tsao on Discharge Over “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

By: Veterans Day: Thank You Lt. Sandy Tsao | Asterisk

Veterans Day: Thank You Lt. Sandy Tsao | Asterisk — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:03:36 +0000

[...] 2nd Lieutenant Sandy Tsao served from 2002 through 2009 with two deployments to Iraq. After personally corresponding with President Obama, Lt. Tsao was fired in May 2009 for being [...]

By: jamesblond

jamesblond — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:32:17 +0000

Nice post.

I don’t really want to post this, I would rather have emailed it in, but I couldn’t see how.

There is what comes across as something of a gaffe In the first line. “Unprecedented” is very much the wrong word. The amount of press on DADT was of course enormous when it was enacted, and the amount of press now is a small fraction of what it was back then.

It’s a small point, but it looks lazy and slipshod coming in the first line of the story. Perhaps something more colloquial — major, terrific, amazing, remarkable — would work better.

By: Celebz! Archive » Blog Archive » OMG gossip: Glow-in-the-dark Michael

Celebz! Archive » Blog Archive » OMG gossip: Glow-in-the-dark Michael — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:00:48 +0000

[...] President Obama promising to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Was it a handwritten empty promise? [glaad] OMG new wearable Walkman! [oh la la] NH Governor Jim Lynch will sign gay marriage bill [towleroad] [...]

By: Personalizing DADT. :: Scoop44

Personalizing DADT. :: Scoop44 — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:50:18 +0000

[...] of media activity around Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Specifically, the story of one woman—Sandy Tsao—has received a lot of attention. Like other discharged LGBTs she was sent a personal note from [...]

By: 8Asians.com » Openly Gay Asian Americans Discharged from the Military.

8Asians.com » Openly Gay Asian Americans Discharged from the Military. — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:13:46 +0000

[...] being gay trumps being an honorable and brave soldier because Lt. Choi and fellow soldier Second Lt. Sandy Tsao are both being discharged from the military due to their sexual orientation. As always, I turn to [...]