He didn't tell people he was gay and in training his barrack mates found out. He left the phone by his bed with a screen on and some of his fellow soldiers and his roommates found the texts It led to some bullying he said some of it was physical They called him faggot and all that stuff Just a question is about his father's father's father’s woman and what a sort of a society like a man's mother's father would look like. And do his fellow soldiers accept him and his sexuality now? Everybody in his unit over 180 people now know he's gay He's very proudly out and embraced it.
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