"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground." - Frederick Douglass
Howard Dean mentions Eric Alva. For the record, Eric was in the Marines not the Army when he lost his leg in Iraq.
The person holding the megaphone is Justin Elzie who outed himself in 1993 to help the lift the ban effort then. He continued serving as an out gay Marine for four years while his case worked its way through the courts, finally reaching a financial settlement and retiring.
