More than 800 military veterans receive honorable discharges from Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" records review
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More than 800 veterans who were kicked out of the military for their sexual orientation under a policy that banned gays and lesbians from openly serving, known as "don't ask, don't tell," will receive honorable discharges, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin announced Tuesday.
"Under President Biden's leadership, the Department of Defense has taken extraordinary steps to redress the harms done by "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and other policies on these former Service members," Austin said in a statement.
The news comes a little more than a year after proactively reviewing the records of LGBTQ+ veterans who might be eligible for an honorable discharge but had not yet applied for one. The 800+ veterans receiving this relief will see their discharge papers – known as a DD-214 – automatically change to "honorable" without the burden of having to go through the military's formal process of applying for a discharge upgrade.
President-elect Donald Trump issued two statements on Sunday night following the death of former President Jimmy Carter, saying "we all owe him a debt of gratitude." Carter died Sunday at the age of 100. "I just heard of the news about the passing of President Jimmy Carter. Those of us who have been fortunate to have served as President understand this is a very exclusive club, and only we can relate to the enormous responsibility of leading the Greatest Nation in History. "President Jimmy Carter is dead at 100 years of age. While I strongly disagreed with him philosophically and politically, I also realized that he truly loved and respected our Country, and all it stands for. He worked hard to make America a better place, and for that I give him my highest respect. He was a truly good man and, of course, will be greatly missed. He was also very consequential, far more than most Presidents, after he left the Oval Office. Warmest condolences from Melania and I to his wonderful family!"
President Biden is speaking Sunday evening as the nation mourns former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100.
Jimmy Carter remembered as "statesman and humanitarian" as world leaders respond to his death at 100
The death on Sunday of former President Jimmy Carter, the nation's oldest former president in history, quickly prompted tributes from the U.S. and abroad, with responses coming in from world leaders and ordinary citizens, celebrities and politicians, and people whose lives he affected. Here are some of the reactions to Carter's death at age 100.
Elected in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, the former governor of Georgia, ran as a Washington outsider and rose to the White House with a strong sense of morality, an engineer's mind and a progressive, moderate approach to governing.
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On this "Face the Nation" broadcast, moderated by Major Garrett:
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