According to the New York Times, undesirable discharge was often used to get rid of gay service members, and "Such designations could make it difficult for the men and women who had served to get employment, loans or access to veterans benefits."*

*https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/nyregion/gay-veteran-air-force-undesirable-honorable-discharge.html?_r=0]]>

This copy of the certificate was made by a Cambridge City Clerk on January 18, 1996 (according to the stamp). ]]>
-"Someone to Watch Over Me" by Barbara Streisand
-Opening sentences
-reading: Jon Copeland, "To everything there is a season," Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
-Meditation, led by Margaret Hougen. Celebration and Mourning
-Tributes, Stories, Memories (all mourners invited to participate)
-The Blessing
-"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by Judy Garland

The back of the program has a xerox of Gordon's Boston Globe obituary.
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One obituary was published in the Boston Globe on Thursday, December 7, 1995. The other clippings do not have newspaper names on them. ]]> Attached to the letter is another document - the estate appraisal, estimating the property's worth at $23,000.]]> It was probably run in a local paper, as the article on the back side of the clipping (not shown) references Charles' hometown (Fairfield) twice.]]>