Overview
In 1989, during a routine interview for top-secret security clearance, U.S. Army Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer revealed that she was a lesbian-and began an ordeal that, despite her distinguished twenty-six-year military career, resulted in her discharge from the U.S. Army. Her dismissal garnered intense media coverage. stirred debate all the way to the presidency, and ignited her activism that continues today. In this revealing autobiography, Cammermeyer writes of her decision to challenge the official policy on homosexuals in the military and of her victory in Federal District Court and beyond. But much more than a book about laws and politics, Serving in Silence is about coming of age, being a mother, and finding one's center; about "coming out," about the daily horrors of nursing in Vietnam, and about a female soldier's brave life.THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE TELEVISION MOVIEThough Dr. Cammermeyer's twenty-six year career as an Army nurse was interrupted by her discharge, she continued to care for veterans at a VA hospital until her retirement. She lives on Whidbey Island, WA with her spouse Diane Divelbess and continues to speak out on civil right issues.VIETNAM VETERANRECIPIENT OF THE BRONZE STARMOTHER OF FOURVA NURSE OF THE YEARDISCHARGED
- | Author: Margarethe Cammermeyer
- | Publisher: Margarethe Cammermeyer
- | Publication Date: Sep 09, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 408 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
- | ISBN-10: 0692773932
- | ISBN-13: 9780692773932
