Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: The Birth of an Idiom
The insurance on homosexual in the war machine that the Department of Defense bring in 1993 had four directives : Do n’t involve , do n’t tell , do n’t pursue , and do n’t harass . In the very beginning it was occasionally referred to as the “ do n’t ask , do n’t state , do n’t follow ” policy , but the name rapidly settled into the pithy two part , four word expression that we are all familiar with ....