<p>The gay thing I think is misunderstood to an extent. From what my mom told me (she was an Army captain through the 80s), the big fear was that gays were being found more likely to have AIDS, and on the battlefield, your squad acts as your blood donors if you required a transfusion. Having an HIV+ or AIDS victim in your squad meant that everyone was at risk.</p>
<p>So, no matter what it is now, the issue of homosexuals in the military used to be a safety issue. </p>
<p>But Yale and Harvard definitely have ROTC now, because I got letters from both of them. I know bostomusmc who posts on the USNA board says that even if there’s (N)ROTC on the campuses, that doesn’t mean they’re accepted by the population (students OR professors). How sad.</p>
<p>btw aspen – I greatly appreciated the poem as well :)</p>