Via Free Beacon:

North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Deborah Ross spoke out in defense of state bars that chose to stop admitting members of the military.

Ross has been forced to answer for much of the work she did as head of North Carolina’s ACLU branch during her Democratic primary battle and current campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Richard Burr. Critics of her ACLU record have pointed to cases that Ross took up and also cases that she chose to ignore, such as a Vietnam veteran who asked for her help after being told he could not fly the American flag on his property.

One group that never received her help was a group of active military members in North Carolina who were told they could not attend certain bars because they were part of the armed forces.

Active personnel at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune complained to Wilmington, North Carolina’s Star-News in 1996 after it became normal for bars in town to refuse service to military members.

Bars began installing “no-military” policies in Wilmington, citing complaints about “violent and vulgar behavior by some young Marines.” The rules applied to all personnel who looked like they were in the military, whether or not they had caused any trouble.

“If you come in with a haircut like you just came out of boot camp, you’re not getting in anywhere,” one Marine corporal said.