most sorely needed.

Who is actually responsible for this situation? In military matters, as is well known, everything goes by chainof-command right on up to the Commander-in-Chief. So let us not, when the chips are down (if it ever comes to that) forget that a leadership which has by executive orders deliberately rejected some of its finest material is entirely responsible.

There is no use in pointing fingers, some may say. Maybe not, if one doesn't give a damn about his country, but are we supposed to just sit around wringing our hands ineffectually and saying, "What a pity! What a pity," while things keep getting

worse.

I say, pin the responsibility exactly where it belongs, on the Commanderin-Chief, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Did he start the system? No, not at all. Nor did Harry S. Truman, or Frank-

lin D. Roosevelt, but each of them. has sanctioned it. Each of them has played right along with the whole despicably un-American deal. So each of them has been morally responsible, but right now, in this year of Summit Conference talk, the responsibility falls squarely on the man who is President now.

He is the man who is called upon to act, and to act rightly, as one upholding the Constitution of the United States in all its aspects should do. His duty is clear, perhaps cruelly clear. History's pen is poised. Will it record shame, or honor? Are we to have recognition by our military leaders of their Constitutional obligations to all classes of citizens, be they heterosexual or homosexual? Or are we to keep on vitiating our military strength through policies that reject the willingness, talents and abilities of our homosexual citizenry?

M

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