grandfath grandfather, even in the civil war, all of my family, my brother, my uncle, his son, we re a very patriotic family. i m very proud of our family and what we have done. when you decided to undergo treatment. and become a woman, what kind of support did you get did you get support from the military, from the people that you knew? no, because i wasn t in contact with a lot of those people. i stayed away from many of the people in the military because of when i first came out, i did talk to some former submariners, like myself. and they were disappointed and upset with me. however, later on in life, 20 years later, these men have changed their mind. they supported me very well when i went and saw went to the a reunion last year, to submariners. and all of these men were