The easy part is done

President Reagan's labor secretary endured years of persecution by a goofball prosecutor with a grudge, then went to trial, and was acquitted.


He asked, "Where do I go to get my reputation back?"


Congress and the President owe an answer to that question to these people:

More than 14,000 soldiers lost their jobs and their dignity over the last 17 years because they were gay, but there will be no more victims of this injustice. The nation’s military is about to send a message of tolerance and shared purpose to the world — now that political leaders, who voted for legalized bigotry in the armed forces in 1993 and kept it alive since then, have found the strength to stand up and end it.