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02-22-2011, 02:24 AM
Seriously ... what is wrong with these people?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style='font-size: 11pt'>Columbia University students heckled a war hero during a town-hall meeting</span> on whether ROTC should be allowed back on campus.
"Racist!" some students yelled at Anthony Maschek, a Columbia freshman and former Army staff sergeant <span style='font-size: 11pt'>awarded the Purple Heart after being shot 11 times in a firefight in northern Iraq in February 2008. Others hissed and booed the veteran.</span>
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.
<span style='font-size: 11pt'>"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."</span>
Several students laughed and jeered the Idaho native, a 10th Mountain Division infantryman who <span style='font-size: 11pt'>spent two years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington recovering from grievous wounds.</span>
Maschek, who is studying economics, miraculously survived the insurgent attack in Kirkuk. In the hail of gunfire, <span style='font-size: 11pt'>he broke both legs and suffered wounds to his abdomen, arm and chest.</span>
He enrolled last August at the Ivy League school, where an increasingly ugly battle is unfolding over the 42-year military ban there. ...
<span style='font-size: 17pt'>"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."</span>
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/hero_unwelcome_Zi3u1fwtRpo87vXAiAQfSN#ixzz1Eg4O3Rh x </div></div>
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style='font-size: 11pt'>Columbia University students heckled a war hero during a town-hall meeting</span> on whether ROTC should be allowed back on campus.
"Racist!" some students yelled at Anthony Maschek, a Columbia freshman and former Army staff sergeant <span style='font-size: 11pt'>awarded the Purple Heart after being shot 11 times in a firefight in northern Iraq in February 2008. Others hissed and booed the veteran.</span>
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.
<span style='font-size: 11pt'>"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."</span>
Several students laughed and jeered the Idaho native, a 10th Mountain Division infantryman who <span style='font-size: 11pt'>spent two years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington recovering from grievous wounds.</span>
Maschek, who is studying economics, miraculously survived the insurgent attack in Kirkuk. In the hail of gunfire, <span style='font-size: 11pt'>he broke both legs and suffered wounds to his abdomen, arm and chest.</span>
He enrolled last August at the Ivy League school, where an increasingly ugly battle is unfolding over the 42-year military ban there. ...
<span style='font-size: 17pt'>"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."</span>
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/hero_unwelcome_Zi3u1fwtRpo87vXAiAQfSN#ixzz1Eg4O3Rh x </div></div>
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