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cadets started cheering and whooping for their classmate and her fiancée,
It’s a tradition at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., that when a cadet becomes engaged to be married, the lucky man or woman’s friends will announce the engagement to the entire corps in the wardroom at lunchtime, the one meal that all four years of students eat together. On Thursday, Dec. 5, the announcement was a little different. “Over the weekend, Cadet First Class Kaitlin Ward got down on one knee and proposed to her longtime girlfriend, Lauren Bloch. This is the first announcement of its type.”
There was a brief moment of silence as the room realized the significance of the announcement — the first in the school’s 137-year history — before the corps of cadets started cheering and whooping for their classmate and her fiancée, the latest couple who had met and fallen in love at the academy.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/first-same-sex-marriage-announcement-at-the-coast-guard-acad
Thought you all could use some cheerful news. Sounds like atleast one service academy can keep it's bigots in check.
On edit posted first two para for those that don't want to follow link.
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