Will you serve with me? 21 arrested at West Point (don't ask / tell) [View All]

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West Point - Jacob Reitan had a question for the men and women in uniform.

Asking it got him arrested.



Times Herald-Record/DOMINICK FIORILLE
Diane Gray of Los Angeles, CA, and Tommy Atz of Philadelphia, PA, have their mouths taped shut outside the United States Military Academy at West Point Thayer gate on 4-26-06. They are with Soulforce, a group supporting gay and lesbian people.

Times Herald-Record/DOMINICK FIORILLE
Jacob Reitan, a Young Adult Coordinator for Soulforce, gets a summons to appear in court from military police after Reitan and 20 other protesters were arrested after they entered West Point to try and talk to cadets on 4-26-06.


Times Herald-Record/DOMINICK FIORILLE
Protesters were escorted out by military police after they entered West Point on 4-26-06

Times Herald-Record/DOMINICK FIORILLE
Jacob Reitan, a Young Adult Coordinator for Soulforce, speaks to the crowd outside the Thayer gate at West Point while his parents Randi, left, and Philip, of Eden Prarie, Minn., foreground, listen. 4-26-06.

http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/04/27/news-gbsoulforce-04-27.html
By Greg Bruno
Times Herald-Record
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