Lt. Dan Choi talks about the source of his courage

I attended a small Courage Campaign fundraiser in San Francisco on August 17, 2009. I sat down in the living room waiting for Cleve Jones & Rick Jacobs to speak, when I felt someone sit down next to me. I turned. It was Lieutenant Dan Choi.

He got up to speak and shared a story about coming out to his family, and how a key component to his 'fessing up was the fact that in not telling them, he was lying. And in lying he was being dishonorable - something that clearly goes against the very grain of his being. When he even talks about it, he cringes.

As the evening went on we chatted a bit further, and finally I asked him, "So when you have those moments when you feel overwhelmed, when you doubt whether or not you can go on... what do you do?"

He talks about that in this video.

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• dan choi
• courage campaign
• cleve jones
• rick jacobs
• cathy brooks