Apr. 20, 2026
Discrimination serves no legitimate military purpose
The reach of the Feres doctrine highlights the urgent need for legal reform to protect service members from discrimination and retaliation.
On March 21, 1945, Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn delivered one of the most powerful eulogies in American military history at the 5th Marine Division Cemetery on Iwo Jima. As the first Jewish chaplain to serve with the Marines, he declared: "Here lie officers and men, Negroes and whites, rich men and poor... Protestants, Catholics, and Jews... together. Here no man prefers another because of his faith or despises him because of his color... Among these men there is no discrim...
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