“When the Army discharged Pvt. Donald Hallman in 1955 for being what it called a ‘Class II homosexual,’ the 21-year-old was so scared of being an outcast that he burned all his military records, save for a single dog tag he hid away. . . . But this summer, Mr. Hallman, now 82, retrieved the dog tag from a keepsake box and began working through an application to the Department of Defense, asking that his decades-old discharge be upgraded from ‘undesirable’ to ‘honorable.’ ‘I’ve gotten to a point in my life where no one can hurt me now,’ he said. ‘I don’t care who knows, and I want to show I was an honorable person.'” Read more here.
