OK, I've taken my water skis off and apologize to Dorothy Parshall for the quick trip into some tension reducing silliness

I confess that I was unaware of the situation regarding Lieutenant Dan Choi but todays Times online article Dan Choi ordered out of US military for announcing his homosexuality has rectified that.

At West Point Dan Choi majored in Arabic language and environmental engineering, skills that he put to use during a 15-month tour of Iraq beginning in 2006.
He has been ordered out of the US military after publicly announcing his homosexuality in a direct challenge to the army's controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

'He said that his declaration was a protest against a policy that forced soldiers to lie in order to serve their country. "It's an immoral code that goes against every single thing we were ever taught at West Point with our honour code," '