Campus Bias Against Veterans from War on Terrorism

National Review ^ | August 29, 2005 | Wynton C. Hall & Peter Schweizer

[LovesReagan]

As college students hit campuses across the nation this week, a new generation of young veterans will step off the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan and onto the ideological battlefield of our university campuses. For those on the frontline in the war on terror, the antiwar hostility of liberal professors and campus activists will assuredly prove unsettling. Just ask Marine sergeant Marco Martinez, a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom...

[LovesReagan]

Unbelievable! Our men and women in uniform deserve better.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Dallas/Fort Worth Star-Telegram 8-28-05 Jack Douglas Jr.
CRAWFORD TX-
President Bush's supporters poured into Crawford by the thousands Saturday,
for the first time outnumbering war protesters led by Cindy Sheehan,
who began a vigil here three weeks ago,
demanding a personal meeting with the vacationing president
to talk about her son's death in Iraq.

Lame Stream Media : News Flash!

President Bush already met with Cindy Sheehan in June 2004 for 10 minutes.

From The Reporter, Vacaville, CA archive: Bush, Sheehans share moments.


Quit lying!!!!






Anyone who thinks Hanoi Kerry and Hanoi Jane
aren't behind the anti war crowd
needs to get a clue.

[squarebarb]

Something's got to give.

They just can't keep it up forever, this hatred of America and the military.

[XR7]

Slick Willie's and der Hildebeast's generation of PhD professors who went to college because they had student deferments during the Viet Nam War, who got their advanced degrees and tenure while their brothers were getting killed and wounded in 'Nam, are now the ruling elites encouraging today's college students to diss the Iraq war vets.

[2banana]

The Navy Cross — as in second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor. Martinez, formerly of 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, is a bona-fide American hero and the first Hispanic American since Vietnam to receive the Navy Cross. During the Battle of At Tarmiya, one of Sergeant Martinez’s fellow marines had been hit in the legs and left for dead by five terrorists holed up in an adobe garden shed. That’s when Martinez used his body to shield the dying marine from the terrorist before mounting a 20-meter frontal charge at the bunker with nothing but a depleted rifle and a grenade. With enemy bullets pinging off his gear, Martinez unpinned the grenade, slammed his body into the adobe building, and lobbed the device into the window of the structure, killing all the terrorists inside.

But as liberal professors and antiwar activists continue to wage a nationwide campaign to rid university campuses of military recruiters — in some cases going so far as to throw water bottles and scream epithets at them — it is easy to see why Sergeant Martinez would remain tight-lipped about being one of the nation’s most decorated heroes.

Indeed, as one campus newspaper reported, the rift between young veteran college students and their civilian classmates has left those who have served feeling isolated from campus life, “shunned” because of their service.

Not for nothing, but if Martinez was this brave just a few short months ago, why is he afraid of some sissified college professor...me thinks the author of this piece is going for some shock value...

[highlander_UW]

Just ask Marine sergeant Marco Martinez, a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and a full-time psychology major at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, Calif. “A woman on campus had apparently learned I might be a Marine. When I told her I was, she said, ‘You’re a disgusting human being, and I hope you rot in hell!’ ”

The Left has adopted the mantra that it opposes the war but supports our soldiers. Those veterans visiting campuses tell a different story

More lies from the Left exposed. What hypocrites liberals are.

[ktvaughn]

I am disgusted by this! I understand there is debate about the war, but to personally attack someone doing their duty for their country?? Even if you are totally against the war, how can you not be grateful for their brave service?? This p*isses me off to NO END!

[reagandemocrat]

Nothing changes.

My dad said when he returned from Iwo Jima, he completed his education at USC on the G.I. Bill in his dungarees, and felt antagonism from the 'professors'.

[IMAO-Podcast]

It's no surprise that in the 21st Century your average college campus is littered with lefty America-haters. We need more conservative colleges like "IMAO U":

http://www.imaopodcast.com/podcast/IMAO-Aug22.mp3 (PC speakers required to listen | work-safe conservative comedy)

People have to think for themselves and now cave in to the numerous corrupting influences all around them. Thanks for listening, Freepers. You guys are the best!

[p. henry]

I think that when I retire in 5 or 6 years, I am going to take a course or two at one of the fine universities here in San Diego. Being a contrarian in a monolithic and largely unquestioning intellectual environment can actually be a lot of fun.

[Mo1]

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[Larry Lucido]

I went to Wayne State in Detroit in 1976. Long before I joined the military, but I was a Reagan Republican. I just told my professors and fellow students who didn't like it to "bite me." Or something like that.

[TNCMAXQ]

The returning vets should wear the scorn of these pigs as a badge of honor!

[wideawake]

Martinez does not want his education and future career goals sabotaged by leftist professors.

I don't blame him.

[vetvetdoug]

During the 70's at the U of Tennessee we had a campus organization that was called the United Campus Veterans. We kept a record of the professors and fellow students that gave us trouble from time to time and reported them to the University Ombudsman. We had the respect of the faculty (most of them) and the administration. We also broke up Iranian protesters that were burning US Flags during the Iranian Crisis (actually the Campus police had to put all of the Iranians into protective custody because our organization had gotten together and were on our way to beat the crap out of the ragheads). The Iraq Veterans should organize and start to use the clout.

[conservativeharleyguy]

"But as liberal professors and antiwar activists continue to wage a nationwide campaign to rid university campuses of military recruiters — in some cases going so far as to throw water bottles and scream epithets at them"


Just wait until one of these "schools" figures out a way to keep "GI Bill" funded students off campus. I know...I know... But stranger things have happened.

[Mo1]

Something's got to give.
They just can't keep it up forever, this hatred of America and the military.

I wonder if these nit wit bleeding heart liberals realize that by blocking and attacking the recruiting offices in an attempt to bring down enlistment numbers .. that they are also encouraging the draft to be brought back?

[RexBeach]

Great post. Thanks!

I just do not understand why so many Americans think that the United States is an evil, rat-filled swamp. It is the most wonderful place on earth and I thank God that I was born and raised here.

As for the maggots in college who do not admire our troops, there are many things I could say, but none would take. I know. When are you full of piss-and vinegar, and you think you're the smartest guy in the room, it only matters what you say - and no one else. Thank God I grew out of that type of thinking. But young Americans should be grateful, in some form, to the men and women who protect them. Yeah, yeah, I know. No one asked the troops to go to war for them. Doesn't matter, the troops don't need the maggots' permission to love and serve their country.

'Nuff said.

Viva the troops!

[Paleo Conservative]

Slick Willie's and der Hildebeast's generation of PhD professors who went to college because they had student deferments during the Viet Nam War, who got their advanced degrees and tenure while their brothers were getting killed and wounded in 'Nam, are now the ruling elites encouraging today's college students to diss the Iraq war vets.

I think the only educational deferrments that should be allowed in the case of a draft are for courses of study useful for a war effort. That means deferments for engineering, medical, ect., but not for liberal arts students.

[NYleatherneck]

Doesn't matter... They'll find a way around being drafted.

As long as we have men like Sgt. Martinez, there is no need to worry. After all, they don't give out the Cross for showing up.

Semper Fi.

-B