Beags
"Don't ask don't tell" only makes sense for 2 groups of people:
1. Self-loathing closet homosexuals.
2. Those who wish to keep gay servicemen and women liable to blackmail.
I generally find that this whole subject elicits a reaction of rampant disinterest among well-adjusted, heterosexual people.
I confess to being rather intrigued that you seem to be the only man in the country for whom the repeal of the previous imbecilic policy was of such import that you can remember the day of the week upon which the decision fell.