Our best and brightest are not at Harvard

Jewish World Review ^ | May 30, 2003 | Jack Kelly

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Jewish World Review May 30, 2003 / 28 Iyar, 5763

Jack Kelly

Our best and brightest are not at Harvard

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | One of the smarter of the many smart decisions made by the Pentagon during Operation Iraqi Freedom was the decision widely to "embed" journalists with U.S. troops. I think it may cause a sea change in the attitude of journalists toward soldiers.

I am writing now to express my respect for and appreciation of the soldiers in the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the First Armored Division, with whom I was embedded, and the soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized) with whom I was privileged to spend some time.

Dozens of articles already have been written by formerly embedded reporters, describing how much they thought of the soldiers and Marines. They shared hardships and intense experiences togehter. The journalists expressed how hard it was to leave their new friends.

Journalism is dominated by people who were Vietnam War protesters, and I suspect it came as a shock to many of the embedded reporters to learn that soldiers and Marines are bright, tough, skilled, brave and humane. The most touching of these articles, for me, was by a female correspondent for the Arab News, an English-language newspaper in Saudi Arabia. She described how kind the Marines were to her, how solicitious they were for her safety. She concluded that Marines were just like Arabs, and ought to be friends.

During the Vietnam War, many in journalism developed the vile notion that journalists should be neutral when their country is at war. The experiences of the embedded reporters may very well change that.

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The college professors and students at prestigious universities who protested the war in Iraq imagine themselves to be America's best and brightest. They're not. America's best are those who are wearing the uniform of their country. We should be as proud of them as we are grateful to them. - Jack Kelly

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"The college professors and students at prestigious universities who protested the war in Iraq imagine themselves to be America's best and brightest. They're not. America's best are those who are wearing the uniform of their country. We should be as proud of them as we are grateful to them. - Jack Kelly"

AMEN!!!

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Harvard and other ivy league colleges are to education as H'weirdo is to employment in the fashion industry.

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repost from referring thread:

Our best and brightest are not at Harvard

As much as I dislike the aura of today's Harvard, I will make this recommendation to
anyone visiting Boston.
Get on "The T", the fairly good public transport subway system. Ride it north
to the station serving Harvard.
Go to Harvard's Memorial Union (I think that's the official name). Check ahead
as it is opened limited hours.
Be humbled to see the plaques listing the name of Harvard student lost
during The Civil War.


Good Jack Kelly article, to which add this book listed at amazon.com:

Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the United States Marine Corps
by John Schaeffer, Frank Schaeffer

Although this father-son team have given a number of high-profile interviews,
it wasn't until the father mentioned that his father had been a missionary/evangelist
in Switzerland that I surmised (guessed) that Frank Schaffer is the son of
Francis Schaffer (now deceased), the theologian who ran a Christian religious
colony in Switzerland.
Francis Schaffer and Dr. Koop did an anti-abortion film called "What Ever
Happened To The Human Race" back in the early 1980s; I saw it a church back then.