iOS app Android app More  Margaret Witt, Air Force Major
Discharged Under 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' Testifies In Federal
Court: 'It Kills Me'  GENE JOHNSON   09/20/10 08:19 PM ET   AP
Margaret Witt Dadt    No one in her unit or any of her patients
ever expressed concern about her sexual orientation, she told
the judge.  "It's what I've spent over half my life training to
do," Witt testified, her voice breaking. "I miss being able to
be the one that that soldier looks at and I can do something for
him. I'm not complete, and it kills me to not be there."  The
case has been closely watched by those on both sides of the gay
rights debate.  Proponents believe another big legal victory
would build momentum for a congressional repeal of "don't ask,
don't tell," the 1993 law that prohibits the military from
asking about the sexual orientation of service members but
requires discharge of those who acknowledge being gay or are
found to engage in homosexual activity.  Earlier this month, a
federal judge in California ru