AVER at Camp Lejeune Last week American Veterans for Equal Rights was invited to participate in Diversity and Unity Day aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune on coastal North Carolina. Three members of the Georgia Chapter of American Veterans for Equal Rights made the eight hour drive to participate in the event at Lejeune, Home of Expeditionary Forces in Readiness. We were joined there on Friday by members of Outserve - SLDN who helped us give out information, share stories, and discuss issues about LGBT veterans, service members, and our families. We were joined in the event by other military minority groups - Jewish, Latino, Hispanic, Women, African-Americans, Pacific Islander - who were there to share their history, their service, and their contributions to the United States Marine Corps and other branches of our nations military. I met one of the first African-American Marines, a World War II veteran from a segregated military, and one of the first women Marines, a veteran of the Korean War. Our story as LGBT Americans and our fight for the right to serve was in no way unique.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:03:55 +0000
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