Dan Choi is an Iraq veteran, an Arabic linguist, an honored patriot, and a brave American. He is speaking out, at great personal risk, to bring attention to the injustice of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

We have lost thousands of good soldiers because of this law, and thousands more are forced to live as second class citizens.


The law is not only an injustice to our soldiers, but also a risk to
our national security. Many of the 12,500 soldiers we have lost under
this law were linguists, and many of these were Arabic linguists.

It was because of a shortage of linguists, for instance, that we did not
translate an intercepted Al-Qaeda transmission about the September 11th
attacks until September 12th.