"Man Without Honor"

TCS Daily ^ | 17 Feb 2006 | Ralph Kinney Bennett

[DogByte6RER]

TCS Daily

"Man Without Honor"

By Ralph Kinney Bennett

Greg Hallenbeck was like many men of his generation. He had to work hard to get a good start in life. A tough, stocky kid, part Sioux Indian, he managed to get to the University of Washington in the teeth of the Great Depression.

By that time his parents were separated. His mother helped him through school by working as a switch board operator in Tacoma, Wash. To pick up the rest of the financial slack he had to work all his spare hours at various jobs. During the summers he worked in a gold mine in Idaho, his home state.

If the work was a burden, Greg didn't show it. He realized that his university education was a privilege and he took full advantage of it. He signed up for ROTC, made the university wrestling and swimming teams, joined a fraternity and graduated four years later (1934) with a degree in aeronautical engineering.

With his Army ROTC commission he served with the Coast Artillery Reserve in Washington state. Meanwhile, he had been fortunate enough to land a job as a draftsman at Boeing Aircraft, in Tacoma, after graduation. He loved airplanes and he wanted to fly.

And fly he did. Into history.

He joined the Marine Corps Reserve in 1936 as an aviation cadet. He got his wings in 1937 and accepted a commission in the regular Marine Corps later that year. By 1940, he was at Pensacola Naval Air Station as a flight instructor, as the clouds of World War II loomed ever closer to the United States.

Greg didn't wait for the war. He went to it. He joined the American Volunteer Group, later known as the famed Flying Tigers, to help defend China against Japan.

[DogByte6RER]

Just what the hell are these idiots on the University of Washington's student senate learning in class? Apparently they are not studying any American history or if they are, their Marxist professors are brainwashing them into believing that racist and imperialist America caused the aggression that led to World War II.

This is just incredible...and pathetic too.

These sniveling UW student punks seem to be making Greg Boyington into some sort of war criminal!

Damn them all...

A college education means absolutely nothing nowadays.

[trek]

This is what you get when you let America hating communists take over academia. It will take a generation to drive them out.

[ansel12]

"On October 17, 1943, Pappy led a force of 24 Marine fighters over the Japanese fighter base at Kahili, on the island of Bougainville. They circled the base repeatedly, daring the 60 Japanese fighters on the field to come up. When the Japanese responded, Pappy's boys shot down 20 of them before scooting back to base without losing a plane."

Can you imagine the mood they would have been in back at base?

[Steveone]

This is what you get when you let America hating communists take over academia. It will take a generation to drive them out.

Or another attack on this country !

[trek]

"Or another attack on this country !"

If the first one didn't do it, what makes you think the second one will?

[jazusamo]

Thanks for the post.

Colonel Boyington: a warrior, a hero and one of America's finest.

Hopefully, oneday those students will realize it.

[fizziwig]

These Boyington threads make my blood boil.....I just want to go in to that University and rip all of those bitches and bastards several new ones......

Better yet, a squadron of restored Corsairs fully loaded to bomb and strafe them into oblivion....what sniveling snotnosed asswad PUNKS!

[Wolfhound777]

A college education means absolutely nothing nowadays.

It truly is a sorry state of affairs. Education in America now is just indoctrination into political correctness and socialism/communism. Something has to be done and soon.

[Rummyfan]

This is what you get when you let America hating communists take over academia. It will take a generation to drive them out.

With the tenure they have achieved, you're right. College prof is about the most privileged job in the country: U of Colorado couln't even get rid of an out-and-out fraud like Ward Churchill!

[Steveone]

"If the first one didn't do it, what makes you think the second one will?"

First I pray there is not another one. But judging from the reaction from the first during the first year after there was a shift to the right ( American)Then the Loons resurfaced!

[zip]

Well stated. thanks from a vet

[Cicero]

Great column.

And, disgusting as this senate meeting was, in some ways you can't blame the students. They are pathetically ignorant. They have been educated to think this way all their lives, and they probably haven't the foggiest notion what the war was about. It's doubtful that they've been taught anything much about it or anything else in history--world history OR American history.

It's a marvel that so many kids manage to figure out that their teachers are miseducating them, and come out the other end of this sorry process with some sanity and common sense.

[F-117A]

Don't know if this has been around or if it was rushed onto the website because of the current situation.

Lt. Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington Memorial Scholarship Fund

[Rembrandt]

From watching war stories on TV with Col. North, I know that Pappy Boyington was also a bit of a hellraiser. He was also proud as hell of what he did. I suspect he considers it a privelige to NOT BE HONORED by such a sissy and prissy establishment as the University of Wussington!

[de Buillion]

"This is what you get when you let America hating communists take over academia. It will take a generation to drive them out. "

Sorry to spring this on you, but the communists went out with Y2K. No, the current owners of America's school system are not America hating communists- our entire education system is owned, lock, stock and barrel by American hating hard-left liberal democrats, such as ward churchill and the entire corrupt collegiate system that gave him tenure.

[bybybill]

What fools! Our only hope is they don`t breed.

[burzum]

It wasn't always this way. There was a famous incident in the early days of the university where the ASUW (the organization that now controls the student senate) protested a gift from a morally corrupt Seattle businessman. As a result the ASUW was kicked off campus for several years. Eventually the ASUW built the strength to sack the school president.

UW used to be a very conservative school. It is my hope that in time it will become more balanced. The biggest problem with this university (and others like it in the country) is that the less useful studies, where liberalism flourishes, have gained such prominence. Is it really that important to give programs like women's studies and drama the same prominence as electrical engineering and physics? It would probably make a lot of sense to cut many of these useless programs (generally in the humanities) and enlarge the harder ones (usually in science and engineering). Who wants to hire someone with a degree in women's studies anyways?

[CrazyIvan]

"On October 17, 1943, Pappy led a force of 24 Marine fighters over the Japanese fighter base at Kahili, on the island of Bougainville. They circled the base repeatedly, daring the 60 Japanese fighters on the field to come up. When the Japanese responded, Pappy's boys shot down 20 of them before scooting back to base without losing a plane."

A bunch of males who can't parallel park their Toyota Prius or fight their way out of a piss soaked paper bag sit in their ivory towers and bad mouth a squadron of men who flew airplanes with four times the power of a Hemi-Cuda and gladly pick a fight with less than two to one odds. Pathetic.

[robowombat]

Yep, Boyington was in a very small class. Only 9 Marine aviators scored 15 or more kills in World War 2 and he was one of them.

[A.A. Cunningham]

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