In November 2008, Army Staff Sgt. Anthony Maschek was involved in an horrific battle in northern Iraq. He was shot 11 times in the battle, earning him the Purple Heart, one medal every soldier would rather avoid being awarded. He broke both legs and was wounded in the abdomen, arms and chest.
He spent two years at Walter Reed Medical Hospital recovering from his wounds.
Last August he enrolled at Columbia University.
There's a war going on at Columbia, a war on the ROTC and our military. The school first claimed they did not want the ROTC on their premises because of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy of the military. Since that policy has changed, it has not changed the disgust that Columbia instills in their students against brave men and women that serve this country.
Columbia has been holding several sessions about allowing the ROTC on campus. Although there are a few professors willing to speak up in support of our military, Sociology Professor Emeritus Herbert Gans told the NY Post the following, "Universities should not be involved in military activities," Columbia should come out against spending $300 billion a year on unnecessary wars."
Even more egregious is the reaction that they students now display toward our soldiers.
Maschek was invited to address one of the sessions to discuss his military service. He said, "It doesn't matter how you feel about the war. It doesn't matter how you feel about fighting. There are bad men out there plotting to kill you."
The reaction of the students? They began to heckle this man who took 11 bullets for his country. They began to scream, "Racist" at a hero that fought for their rights to say those words. They booed him.
All I can tell you is that if I was paying for my kid to attend this school or any like it, I would haul their asses out of that school so fast they wouldn't know what hit them. And if it was my kid holding up signs like the one below, they would get their next six months education volunteering at some VA hospitals and their assignments would be to document every single war story that those heroes suffered and fought for.
It's apparent that we, as a generation, have failed to instill in a lot of our children how much blood has been shed for their freedom to be able to insult a hero.
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that breaks my heart and makes me mad enough to kick the shit out of someone at the same time, their free speech comes at a price. a price that these chickenshits would never have the ball to pay. Pick up a weapon and stand the wall
And ya know that the punks holding the sign have never stepped foot in a "low income" community, much less lived in one.
What is surprising is that, when you break things down, the low income community stuff no longer flies. More and more people in the military are from the middle class, if not higher, with college degrees.
cjh
Exactly CJ. Ask the Nam guys. I'll bet if I could locate a study, the draftees of that era, by and large were from the lower income families. The families with money put their kids in college or pulled strings to keep them out of the war.
My husband was one of them.
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