Without it, production would fall and the soldiers at the front would be deprived of necessary warfighting materials.

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There can be little doubt there were gay soldiers who fought for American independence, who consecrated the ground at Gettysburg, who manned the trenches along the Western Front, who stormed the beaches of Iwo Jima.

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