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#ChelseaManning is an apt symbol for this generation. She's trans and military. She cared more about truth than loyalty, and was the most public victim of a massively popular "liberal" president who waged an all-out war on transparency. Her final victory, hopefully joyful for her and her loved ones, is Pyrrhic; she was not pardoned, so she is still branded a criminal. Even her release was an act of political expediency and compromise, not morality.
