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"A bill allowing openly gay people to serve in the military was signed into law by President Barack Obama Wednesday, and a military veteran from San Francisco was one of the people invited to Washington to join the president in celebrating the new legislation.The bill to end the \u201Cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201D policy was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives a week ago and approved by the Senate on Saturday.Zoe Dunning, a former Navy commander and co-chair of the board of directors for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, cheered from San Francisco as the Senate passed the legislation this weekend, then got an invitation on Monday to join Obama in Washington for the signing of the bill.Dunning, who served in active duty for six years and for another 16 in the reserves, 13 of which she spent as an open lesbian, has worked on repealing the policy for nearly two decades and was overjoyed to receive the invitation from the White House.\u201CIt was thrilling, it really was,\u201D she said. \u201CI\u2019m very humbled and honored after working on this issue for so many years.\u201DShe flew out from San Francisco to Washington on Monday night and was standing by Obama\u2019s right shoulder when he signed the bill into law Wednesday morning.After advocating for the legislation for so long, Dunning made sure the president spelled his name right when he signed it.\u201CWhen he was signing his name, he got to the \u2018R\u2019 in Barack, and I said \u2018Make sure you spell it right,\u2019\u201D she said."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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