00:00I'm thinking to myself, if you change the laws, you won't have that stigma.
00:04So that's what my husband and I worked for, civil rights and gay rights.
00:16At my last duty station, I was stationed at Fort Meade, Maryland, and I got a top-secret
00:24security clearance there, going before these officials asking me all kinds of personal
00:29questions about myself.
00:31They were announcing a thing like, a homosexual is not anyone that can be trusted, that they
00:38will sell the United States out in a heartbeat to the Russians.
00:42I'm not a traitor.
00:44How dare they say that as if it was a fact?
00:47Well, I'm thinking to myself, if you change the laws, you won't have that stigma.
00:51So that's what my husband and I worked for, civil rights and gay rights.
00:57I was an, I was started to be an activist and when I met him, he was already an activist.
01:04And so we, we teamed up and we were together 50 years.
01:07He had come down with Alzheimer's, we wouldn't know anything.
01:10I had to take care of him for the last five or six years he was alive.
01:14You know, Uncle Marshall kind of talked about, you know, his time at Vietnam and also about
01:19his, you know, time working as an activist for, you know, gay rights.
01:23And, you know, I was really inspired by the stories he told and, you know, in this time
01:29and day and age, especially with all the recent events going on, I think it's just a very important
01:34story.
01:35And I, I truly think Uncle Marshall is like a true American hero and he's just done so
01:40much for this country and for the gay community.
01:43And it's just a very important story that I feel like really needs to be told.
01:48I wasn't expecting the video to blow up or anything.
01:51I just kind of felt like, you know, like if a few people see this, maybe it could touch
01:55a few people's lives.
01:56And there's other veterans saying like, this post brought me to tears because I was in the
02:01military or the Marine.
02:02There was one, um, one person who he was in the Marines and he was gay as well.
02:07And I believe he's around Uncle Marshall's age.
02:09So I think he was in Vietnam, I believe.
02:11And he said that Uncle Marshall's story brought him to tears and that he cannot thank Uncle
02:16Marshall enough for doing all that he did.
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