DISGUSTING: STUDENTS AT COLUMBIA LAUGH, HECKLE, CALL WAR VETS RACIST!
It’s the most sickening and shocking display of anti-military hate that we’ve seen for a long time.
At a recent debate at Columbia about whether or not to allow ROTC back on campus, several ROTC students, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans and current service members were viciously attacked their own fellow students!
 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… – New York Post 02 / 20 / 2011 |
We have heard the anti-war activists say it a thousand times. “We support the troops, but not the war.” We’ve also heard every liberal politician claim that they wouldn’t allow our current veterans to be mistreated the way Vietnam vets were. Obama called the treatment of Vietnam vets a “national disgrace…we resolve to never let it happen again,” he proclaimed at a speech in 2009.
But where is their commitment? Where is that support for our troops? Obviously the students of Columbia didn’t get the memo. We can’t just sit by and let our troops be mistreated like this. Is this the kind of America we want our brave troops overseas to return home to?
Ever since Obama came into office, the far left has not protested as loudly and viciously as when President Bush was in charge. But that doesn’t mean those on the left don’t’ continue to harbor anti-military, anti-America sentiments. In fact, if what happened at Columbia University is any indication, their hatred of our troops and the country they protect runs as deep and extreme as ever.
We don’t want our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to think that they have to come home from serving honorably and bravely in a war to protect our freedoms, and have to deal with this:
| 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. …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. José Robledo, 30, a Columbia student who commutes to Fordham University for ROTC coursework, said he found the treatment of Maschek abhorrent. “The anti-ROTC side has been disrespectful and loud. They hiss and they jeer,” he said. “It’s been to the detriment of the argument.” |
The treatment of military and veteran students at Columbia has been nothing short of disgusting. Don’t let the students of Columbia speak for you! Do something to show that we SUPPORT our troops, and we don’t share the sentiment of bratty and unappreciative college kids!
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im 25, live in NJ – and if this makes you mad, you come to jersey and FIND ME.
I am so overwhelmed by this.
I am disgusted. In my heart, i feel that my generation has consistently been “against me”. Everything i choose..they choose the opposite.
I hate war. duh?
i also hate paperwork, paper cuts and not having sex.
I COULD NEVER- be SO DISRESPECTFUL to a veteran.
EVEN if he said “hello, i love war, paperwork, paper cuts and not having sex”
ok… i may laugh a little then… but ANYWAY my POINT IS-
I like to make people laugh, I do it alot. But laughing AT someone is a horrible thing. It usually “means alot”.
There is no time in my life where i will receive a message like that, given by someone like that, where i will have the reaction to heckle and laugh at them.
Columbia U. students i am ashamed of myself for you.
YOU HAVE MADE ME ASHAMED OF MYSELF
I am ashamed that i share anything with you let alone a voting block large enough to elect someone too inexperienced enough for the job as president.
I lost a very close relative last week-no I did not have to type that on a random blog on the internet. I chose to because i feel it will further solidify my true emotions put forth in this rant. My anger over this nearly equals the sorrow i feel for someone i referred to as my “second mother”. My veteran relatives are surely white-knuckling in their graves.
I am a very lucky man to be an American man, and although I usually don’t agree with America or Americans, I bet I can still end this sentence using the word AMERICA four times.
i win.
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These are nothing but spoiled brats who thinks the world owes them a living.It appears that they recieved no home training such as manners and respect. The Columbia students who show disrespect to our vets are not worthy enought for the troops to wipe their boots on.
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If these are the future leaders of our country, GOD HELP US!!!
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