We all have our opinions. Sometimes they differ. When they do, what do we do? Is it your way or the highway?
At a recent town-hall meeting at the Columbia University, the topic was whether ROTC should be allowed back on campus. (It's been gone for 42 years.)
At the meeting, 28 year old freshman Anthony Maschek spoke. Maschek is an Army veteran, he was a staff sergeant who was awarded the Purple Heart after being shot 11 times in a firefight in northern Iraq in February 2008.(...)
Here's some of what 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."
He was called a racist, and was hissed and booed by his fellow students.
Maschek, an Idaho native, a 10th Mountain Division infantryman, spent two years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington recovering from grievous wounds to his abdomen, arm and chest. Both of his legs were broken.
This meeting was the second of three hearings. Concerns were voiced over the number of females being sexually assaulted in the Army and the Army's current ban on transgender people.
The University is polling 10,000 students for their opinion on allowing ROTC to return. So far 1,300 have responded. Preliminary results are not being revealed.
Why the Army wants an ROTC program at Columbia is beyond me! Does the Army really want to recruit officers from among a pool of rich, spoiled, self centered Ivy League weirdos?
(Fire away, preppies!)
At a recent town-hall meeting at the Columbia University, the topic was whether ROTC should be allowed back on campus. (It's been gone for 42 years.)
At the meeting, 28 year old freshman Anthony Maschek spoke. Maschek is an Army veteran, he was a staff sergeant who was awarded the Purple Heart after being shot 11 times in a firefight in northern Iraq in February 2008.(...)
Here's some of what 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."
He was called a racist, and was hissed and booed by his fellow students.
Maschek, an Idaho native, a 10th Mountain Division infantryman, spent two years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington recovering from grievous wounds to his abdomen, arm and chest. Both of his legs were broken.
This meeting was the second of three hearings. Concerns were voiced over the number of females being sexually assaulted in the Army and the Army's current ban on transgender people.
The University is polling 10,000 students for their opinion on allowing ROTC to return. So far 1,300 have responded. Preliminary results are not being revealed.
Why the Army wants an ROTC program at Columbia is beyond me! Does the Army really want to recruit officers from among a pool of rich, spoiled, self centered Ivy League weirdos?
(Fire away, preppies!)
