It is NOW Sept 20th 12:01 ET on the east coast - DADT is officially dead !!!

[Tx4obama]

[joshcryer]

1. It has been 5 minutes and so far the world has not ended.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. SHHH not until hubby walks in the door

Just kidding!

[gateley]

2. We should all call Obama and thank him!

:7

NEVER would have happened with McCain in the WH. Ever.

:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

[Tx4obama]

3. I agree :) n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. YAY

:party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :toast: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :party: :party: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Tx4obama]

6. 'Repeal Day' - There will be a press conference Tuesday.

I think on Maddow's show she said 'at the Pentagon'



Edited to add:

Repeal will take effect at 12:01 a.m. EDT Tuesday. For weeks the military services have been accepting applications from openly gay recruits, while waiting for repeal to take effect before processing the applications.

As soon as the ban is lifted, the Defense Department will publish revised regulations to reflect the new law that will allow gays to serve openly. The revisions, such as eliminating references to banned homosexual service, are in line with policy guidance that was issued by top Pentagon officials in January, after Obama signed the legislation that did away with the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

The lifting of the 18-year-old ban also will mean a halt to all pending investigations, discharges and other administrative proceedings that were begun under the Clinton-era law.

Existing standards of personal conduct, such as those pertaining to public displays of affection, will continue regardless of sexual orientation.

SNIP

http://www.syracuse.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/pentagon-ready-for-gay-ban-repeal-tuesday/576b00ffe2494ee2820926884e915e11

[jwirr]

7. Finally.

[Tx4obama]

8. Navy officer, partner wed in Vt. as ban ends

DUXBURY, Vt. — When Navy Lt. Gary Ross and his partner were searching for a place to get married, they settled on a site in Vermont, in part because the state is in the Eastern time zone.

That way, the two men were able to recite their vows before family and friends at the first possible moment after the formal repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Just after midnight Tuesday, the partners of 11 years were married.

"I think it was a beautiful ceremony. The emotions really hit me...but it's finally official," Ross said early Tuesday.

Hours before the change was to take effect early Tuesday, the American military was also making final preparations for the historic policy shift. The Pentagon announced that it was already accepting applications from openly gay candidates, although officials said they would wait a day before reviewing them.

Ross, 33, and Dan Swezy, a 49-year-old civilian, traveled from their home in Tucson, Ariz., so they could get married in Vermont, the first state to allow gays to enter into civil unions and one of six that have legalized same-sex marriage.

Ross wore his dress uniform for the ceremony beginning at 11:45 p.m. Monday at Duxbury's Moose Meadow Lodge, a log cabin bed-and-breakfast perched on a hillside about 15 miles northwest of Montpelier.

SNIP

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110920/us-gays-in-military-wedding/

[kestrel91316]

9. Somebody wake me up. There was a time that I thought this would only

happen in dreams.

On second thought, let me sleep. It's such a happy thing to dream about.

Congratulations! And a pox on the haters!!