When the Air Force repealed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, many gay Airmen felt like they could finally be open about who they were.
Thomas Metcalf was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1982. He grew up in a lower-class family that was no stranger to food stamps, he said. He spent the first nine years of his life living on a farm with his two siblings.
Metcalf’s mother joined the Army when he was eight years old. It changed the course of his family’s entire life, he said. It was an equalizer for the Metcalfs. It was his first introduction to the military lifestyle.
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