[blindlaw] graduation soon

[Michael Fry]

Congratulations, Robert.  That's a tremendous accomplishment.

I hope that you are sucessful in your quest to become a reserve JAG.
Hopefully your efforts will get more people thinking about this disparte
treatment.  A person that acquires a disability after enlistment may serve
(and receive amazing benefits such as salary, gaurenteed employment,
housing, healtcare, and the opportunity to live around the world, all paid
for by tax payers) but a person who has a disability before enlistment is
automatically inelgible to serve.

Here's why this disparte treatment seems wrong.  Both classes of people
have the same level of disability.  Both classes are functionally the
same.  But one class is statutorily inelgible to sereve because of the way
they were born.

That is not equal protection under the law and the discrimination is being
perpetuated by the Federal goverment.  So, there better be a compelling
reason for the discrimination.

I'd like to hear the military answer these questions in an appeallate
brief.  What are the compelling reasons why someone who becomes disabled
after enlistment is still fit for active-duty service?  Why don't those
reasons equally apply to persons disabled before attempted enlistment?  Why
is that justification compelling?



On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Jeckel, Christopher
<CJECKEL at law.jmls.edu>wrote:

> Congrats Robert.  Now go and destroy the bar exam!
> Chris
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: blindlaw [blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Marcos
> Rodrigues [mrodrigues81 at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 8:50 PM
> To: Blind Law Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] graduation soon
>
> Hi Robert:
>
> In what university are you doing your JD program?
>
> Cheers.
> Marcos Rodrigues
> mrodrigues81 at hotmail.com
>
>
>
> Em 24/11/2012, às 23:54, Dittman, Robert escreveu:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I will be a new J.D. on December 8, 2012.  My next step is to sit for
> the Texas Bar exam the last week of February 2013.
> >
> > As you all can guess I am very excited and have not given up or wavered
> on my goal to achieve a commission in the  reserved Armed Forces as a
> military lawyer in the JAG corps.  I still have a back up plan as you have
> to eat, but I am continuing to beat the drum for the blind being able to
> serve just as much as those who are blind who are allowed to continue to
> serve.  It can be done because they are doing it, and I am serving in the
> uniform as a volunteer so this is proof that it can, will, and does work.
> >
> > Just thought I'd let you know that graduation is another step closer.
> >
> > I shall not falter I shall not waiver and if I fail at least I shall
> know that I had given the full measure.
> >
> > Take Care,
> >
> > Robert D. Dittman
> >
> >
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