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Being gay in the Military might be a punishable thing, but noone should go through what Alan Shindler, a Radio Third Class Navy Airman shoudl go through for choosing to tell his shipmates his sexual orientaion.

Allan Shindler : A True American Hero
A famous story about gays being in the military was based on a Alan Shindler, a Radioman Third Class Navy Airman. Shindler was restricted on the ship after revealing he was gay. After arriving in Sasebo, Japan he was immediatly put off. The ship that he was serving on was the amphibious assault ship USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3). After getting off the ship Shindler walked around the city for a few hours. What he didnt know was that 2 fellow airmen were following him. "He was obviously going to meet someone" says third class Jonathan W. and who was walking with Terry. M Helvey an Third Class Airman Apprentice, while walking Helvey made remarks that made the others think that he wanted to beat Shindler up because of his sexual orienation, [or for being gay]. Shindler walked around in a horseshoe pattern around the city, when noticing that they had lost him, around a second later they spotted him going into the bathroom, they followed him in. Being 15 yards from the bathroom Helvey ran inside. When Jonathon W. who was with Helvey ran in after him he saw both Shindler and Helveys back to him as if urinating in the urinals. Helvey's hand was in the air as if he was going to strike Shindler down.All that was said was done was that Shindler gave Helvey a look, but not a bad look, a look as if he wanted to know who was standing next to him, that was all he done. Helvey struck Shindler down, after falling pretty hard to the floor Helvey took Shindler into a head lock. Being kicked in the head and torso for about 30 seconds. "It looked like he was kicking a soccer ball" says Jonathon W. [who was with Helvey in the bathroom]. It was said that Helvey literally stomped Shindler to death. Both Helvey and Jonathon knew Shindler and were fellow air man of his. "Blood was all over the place and all over his face too", said by Jonathon W. at the testimony of Helvey. Soon after leaving the bathroom Alan Shindler just layed there unconscious but soon enough he died of eternal bleeding and others. "Shindler was so badly beaten" said a Navy pathologist who looked at Shindler's body, had noted at Shindler's autopsy that, "his injuries are more consistant with high speed automobile accident or a low speed plane crash, and fatal horse trampling". "Shindler's liver" the doctor later added "contained holes in it that allows me to be able to see through it" At the testimony of Terry Helvey, Senator Sam Nunn made a proposal that would allow gay soldies to be open about their sexual orientation offbase. He feared that it would provide them with a "safe haven" from the Military life. Helvey is now sentenced to life in the United States Disciplinary Barracks. Shindlers death was also the main focus on a episode of 20/20 and Any Mother's son, as well as the passing of Bill Clinton's "Don't ask, Don't tell"

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