Writer ALLAN BERUBE (bah-RUE-bay). He wrote the book, "Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women In World War II," (1990, The Free Press). For it, BERUBE spent ten years interviewing gay and lesbian veterans, searching out wartime letters, and consulting newly declassified government documents. He found that hundreds of thousands of gays entered the military despite a procedure for screening out homosexuals. Terry will talk with him about the ban on gays in the military and the hearings going on now, about whether it should be repealed.
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