Today on KTRS/St. Louis, I asked Tom Tarantino, chief policy officer for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, to explain why the bill failed, how it would have helped our returning veterans, how many of them have come home but been unable to find jobs, and what kind of jobs the bill would've helped prepare them for.
We also talked about today's one-year anniversary of the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, and a new study that says that all predictions to the contrary (e.g. John McCain's claim that it would do "great damage" to the military, the Marine Corps commandant who said it would "cost Marines' lives," or that a quarter of our troops would quit in protest), there has been no overall negative impact on military readiness, unit cohesion, recruitment, retention, or morale.
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