Dedicated Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) volunteers have kept up the momentum from coast to coast these past few weeks, making sure their senators are on board to vote for repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which is expected to come to the Senate floor later this month.

At Oberlin College in Ohio, more than 900 students received an action alert encouraging them to contact their senators, and later this week straight and gay veterans and SLDN supporters will be meeting with key Senate staffers.

WASHINGTON -- Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), a national, legal services and policy organization dedicated to ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), issued a national action alert today to members and advocates.

The action alert, signed by former Petty Officer Second Class Jed Batchelder, U.S. Navy, asks supporters to schedule in-state meetings with their U.S. senators ahead of the Senate floor vote expected just weeks from now.

WASHINGTON - Servicemembers United said today that the leadership and staff of the Pentagon's Comprehensive Review Working Group on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" will meet with a group of lesbian and gay military partners during Servicemembers United's Military Partners Forum on Sept. 16.

The meeting will be a first of its kind for both the Pentagon and for the military partner community.

Editor's note: With the Pentagon’s family survey now in the field, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) will release a letter each day this week from family members and spouses of former service members impacted by the military's discriminatory "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy. As the Pentagon reaches out to 150,000 straight couples on how their lives are impacted, these letters will share the perspective of those forced to serve under this law alongside their loved ones.