War Hero, Purple Heart Recipient, Booed and Heckled At Columbia Univ.

[twyacht]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/racist-columbia-univ-students-heckle-wounded-iraq-war-hero/

In defending the merits of university ROTC programs, a wounded war veteran received a cold reception last week from Columbia University students who heckled and mocked the Ivy League freshman. The NY Post reports:

    Columbia University students heckled a war hero during a town-hall meeting on whether ROTC should be allowed back on campus.

    “Racist!” some students yelled at Anthony Maschek, a Columbia freshman and former Army staff sergeant awarded the Purple Heart after being shot 11 times in a firefight in northern Iraq in February 2008. Others hissed and booed the veteran.

    Maschek, 28, had bravely stepped up to the mike Tuesday at the meeting to issue an impassioned challenge to fellow students on their perceptions of the military.

    “It doesn’t matter how you feel about the war. It doesn’t matter how you feel about fighting,” said Maschek. “There are bad men out there plotting to kill you.”

    Several students laughed and jeered the Idaho native, a 10th Mountain Division infantryman who spent two years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington recovering from grievous wounds.

    Maschek, who is studying economics, miraculously survived the insurgent attack in Kirkuk. In the hail of gunfire, he broke both legs and suffered wounds to his abdomen, arm and chest.

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SOB scumbag liberal college punks, should be rounded up and dropped into Kandahar, and pray American Soldiers save them before the rape and beheading squads get them first.

This really gets me steamed.... Who The F*** do these punks,.....nevermind...

[Timothy]

Yes, I read this today and it really chapped my ass!

Columbia should lose all public funding (if they get any) if they chose this course.

[Pathfinder]

Nuke Columbia U.

[MikeBjerum]

You would think that would at least thank him for his sacrifice to assure their Right to abuse him 

[kmitch200]

SOB scumbag liberal college punks, should be rounded up and dropped into Kandahar, and pray American Soldiers save them before the rape and beheading squads get them first.

Sounds good to me.   I'll help pay for the airfare!

[Sponsor]

[tombogan03884]

This kind of crap has only been going on for 45 years, glad to see you boys are right on the breaking news.
Colleges are nothing but indoctrination centers for communists, not every one who graduates from college is a socialist scum bag, but it's a safe way to bet.

[fightingquaker13]

This kind of crap has only been going on for 45 years, glad to see you boys are right on the breaking news.
Colleges are nothing but indoctrination centers for communists, not every one who graduates from college is a socialist scum bag, but it's a safe way to bet.

No offense, but I kind of paid my tuition with ROTC and no one ever gave me crap about wearing the uniform to class on days I had mil. science courses at Georgetown and couldn't change into civvies before class. And American University isn't exactly a bastion of conservatism. Before y'all vent (and it pisses me off too) remember these aholes don't represent the majority of the school. They are just the one's who showed up to protest reinstating ROTC. They are a self selected group of idiots. They call that soldier a racist? How many minority kids (or poor whites) are they keeping out who need that ROTC scholarship to afford Columbia? . Most college students understand that. They alll, except for the rich, graduate owing somebody something. Maybe its a bank for a student loan, maybe its a few years in the Army or Americorps. Either way, you do what you do to get the degree. The vast majority of undergrads (and profs) get that. These idiots are outliers, and I say this as someone who has been a very pro military prof for quite a while. Aholes are out there, but most kids get it.
FQ13
PS the changing into civvies bit was an Army rule, not me being ashamed of the uniform. We were only supposed to wear it while attendining class or in transit. We also couldn't use umbrellas while in uniform, a source of great amusement to the Navy. They could, and mocked, and scoffed, and laughed, and were freaking dry. Cadets didn't merit class A caps. We got c@nt caps, not so good for the rain. The Navy, well, even the Marines had umbrellas.

[Herknav]

I'm not surprised.  My only question is, "How many of the protesters were professors?"

[fightingquaker13]

I'm not surprised.  My only question is, "How many of the protesters were professors?"

Hey! And again hey! It was a protest. Almost everyone there was an idiot. It dosn't reflect the school. Note that lots of profs (those who remember that college isn't free at least), are in favor of allowing ROTC in.
FQ13 who will admit, it is New York (though, didn't muslims do something there? Maybe in early September a few years back?

[philw]

no effing respect!!!

craps me off


only issue is I bet they will get more funding not less