[SmithL]

(On Tuesday, the school board will revisit the issue and may approve a one-year extension of the program through the 2008-09 school year.)As indicated in that last item, it seems it's up to the not-so-good graces of the San Francisco Board of Education to decide, yet again, whether the JROTC stays or goes. Judging by this additional observation from the same article, I wouldn't hold my breath:

Also marching were the Veterans for Peace, who were joined by San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi. At City Hall, they stopped and repeated the chant, "War is not a game."

As long as San Francisco officials continue to collude with so-called peace activists to stab the U.S. military in the back - all the while pretending that by marching once a year in a parade it will all be forgotten - the anti-military stench in this city isn't likely to abate any time soon.

For the sake of the JROTC and Bay Area veterans, I'm glad to see that the Veteran's Day Parade lives on in San Francisco. But it's no coincidence that, each year, the attending crowds get smaller and smaller. And it's hard to escape the conclusion that our nation's veterans, not to mention active duty personnel in a time of war, deserve better. Much better.

[SmithL]

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At City Hall, they stopped and repeated the chant, "War is not a game.

And as JROTC does Funeral Duty I suspect they know that rather well.

I think JROTC is a excellent program. But JROTC has been controversial for a long time and the kids are a easy target for the peace and love thugs.

My husband was in JROTC. Because of it his school deliberately screwed things up so he lost a full scholarship to the state university. No this was not in SF, it was in a relatively conservative part of the mid-west.