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Surviving the Silence [Played June 18 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups; for information on upcoming screenings, log on to https://www.survivingthesilence.com/news-festivals.] Cindy L. Abel's engaging, award-winning, educational, insightful, 79-minute, 2020 documentary that consists of archival film clips and photographs, interview snippets with former gay U.S. Army secretary Eric Fanning and attorney Mary Newcombe, and very personal and enlightening interviews in which decorated Col. Patsy Thompson, who was Chief Nurse of the U.S. Army National Guard at the Pentagon, and her wife Barbara Brass candidly discuss the struggles of hiding their lesbian relationship because the military forbad homosexuals at that time and the irony Col. Thompson faced when she ended up heading a military review board to determine whether to discharge Army Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer after she admitted to being a lesbian in the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" era.   Redhead: Year: 2021 Rating:  NR View Surviving the Silence on the Internet Movie Database