Max
02-22-2011, 10:02 PM
Published February 20, 2011
New York Post
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.
He enrolled last August at the Ivy League school, where an increasingly ugly battle is unfolding over the 42-year military ban there.
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I don't care what your politics are. This kind of thing makes me sick. I wonder how many of those well-to-do spoiled brats in the audience have ever given a single moment of their precious time to public service of ANY kind?
This man wasn't a recruiter, he was simply trying to clarify what the media typically goes out of their way to distort about military service.
I'm a vet, and a moderate. I've also been very much opposed to what our role in the middle east has been over the past decade, but to mock a serviceman in such a fashion is outrageous. Wasn't this the same university that recently welcomed the president of Iran to be a guest speaker? A man internationally recognized as being hell bent on the complete distructon of the west? I don't recall him being heckled. Shameful.
Just my opinion
New York Post
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.
He enrolled last August at the Ivy League school, where an increasingly ugly battle is unfolding over the 42-year military ban there.
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I don't care what your politics are. This kind of thing makes me sick. I wonder how many of those well-to-do spoiled brats in the audience have ever given a single moment of their precious time to public service of ANY kind?
This man wasn't a recruiter, he was simply trying to clarify what the media typically goes out of their way to distort about military service.
I'm a vet, and a moderate. I've also been very much opposed to what our role in the middle east has been over the past decade, but to mock a serviceman in such a fashion is outrageous. Wasn't this the same university that recently welcomed the president of Iran to be a guest speaker? A man internationally recognized as being hell bent on the complete distructon of the west? I don't recall him being heckled. Shameful.
Just my opinion