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Dec 21
It’s a time-honored tradition at Navy homecomings – one lucky sailor is chosen to be first off the ship for the long-awaited kiss with a loved one.
Today, for the first time, the happily reunited couple was gay.The dock landing ship Oak Hill has been gone for nearly three months, training with military allies in Central America.
As the homecoming drew near, the crew and ship’s family readiness group sold $1 raffle tickets for the first kiss. Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta bought 50 - which is actually fewer than many people buy, she said, so she was surprised Monday to find out she’d won.
Her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell, was waiting when she crossed the brow.
They kissed. The crowd cheered. And with that, another vestige of the policy that forced gays to serve in secrecy vanished.
By Corinne Reilly
The Virginian-Pilot
© December 21, 2011
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Oct 04
Happy Thing of the Day #9
I should be an aunt by tomorrow. :)
Oct 01
Happy Thing(s) of the Day #8
It feels like fall, and I get to see Lyndsey and Kristin today.
Sep 16
Happy Thing of the Day #7
I really do have the best friends.
Sep 07
Happy Thing of the Day #6
Lyndsey got the job she wanted, and she starts on Monday. Sometimes good things DO happen to good people.
Aug 30
Happy Thing of the Day #5
Aside from testing my email form, I’m finally finished with my website. Next step is uploading it.
Aug 24
Happy Thing of the Day #4
I have a new pillow that is lovely and doesn’t make my neck hurt after sleeping on it. In consequence, fewer headaches!
An update on my reading list:
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
- Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
- Poems by Emily Dickinson
- This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)- Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson)
- The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie)The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie)
I knocked out the Agatha Christies first because they were shorter, and for a while I was reading exclusively on my phone. Then I found I could download a free Kindle reader for my laptop, so I started on Middlemarch. It’s been recommended to me multiple times, but oh my GOD it’s so boring. I got through the first two chapters, but unless someone can tell me it gets a hell of a lot better, I think I’m done.
Aug 20
Happy Thing of the Day #3
A phone call from someone I haven’t spoken to in a while and who I miss very much.
Happy Thing(s) of the Day #2
I think I might keep this up. Maybe it’ll do me some good.
Generally speaking, today’s happy things were that I was productive, I didn’t take a nap, and I didn’t cry once.* I even managed to be social. And I was in a pretty good mood all day long. Any one of those things would have been enough for the day, but all of them? That’s goddamn miraculous, that is.
Well done.
* I know that sounds really sad, but I haven’t been in a good place lately. It was a relief to have a good day again.
Aug 19
Happy Thing of the Day
My phone magically has Kindle installed on it now, and I downloaded a bunch of free classics to read. I ran out of books a week or two ago and haven’t wanted to spend money on new ones. Now I don’t have to for a little while. :)
On the reading list:
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
- Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
- Poems by Emily Dickinson
- This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Middlemarch (George Eliot)
- Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson)
- The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
- Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie)
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie)
