and it's the right thing for people lycra beck ca -- people e rebecca. she's a young woman from spoa dmain my home state. -- spokane in my home state. she wrote me a letter and told me she's a senior at eastern washington university. and her dream for years has been to join the u.s. army. she wrote to me -- and i quote -- "i believe the military is an honorable calling, one of self-sacrifice and dedication, and i would be proud to call myself a soldier." but there was a problem. rebecca told me that the very sense of honor that called her to serve her country was preventing her from acting on her dream because, she told me she's a lesbian, and she's very proud of who she is. and as long as the official policy of the united states army is to ask her to bury that pride and tell her to keep secret a large part of who she is and to ask her to live what would essentially be a lie, she simply won't be able to serve our country. rebecca told me that nothing would make her happier than to be able to graduate this coming spring and start her journey standing up f