Posted on 11/19/2002 6:11:05 AM PST by Phantom Lord
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:55:12 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
In a few weeks or months the United States will probably begin bombing the Iraqi people. It should be a teachable moment for teachers to address peace. It won't happen.
Only a few teachers will have debates on the impending war, and only a few will attempt to balance the overwhelming American cultural penchant for vengeance and violence.
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The inclusion of this name on the list is telling. He wasn't against wholesale slaughter - as long as it was the 'right people'. He enthusiastically supported the killing of millions - knowingly - who opposed communism. A war might have stopped that.
Sure enough, Gilroy has an Ithaca connection. From his website:
Jack is also advising the Ithaca, NY Society of Friends as they develop a Peace Academy on the edge of the Cornell campus.
Ithaca is the City of Evil.
A bank robber is interrupted by the sound of a police car pulling up at the bank. He decides to take a group of hostages. One of the policeman outside is an expert marksman and he has a high-powered rifle in the trunk. The police call the robber at the bank and tell him to give himself up. He responds that he will shoot a hostage every ten minutes unless he is allowed to escape with his loot. He shoots the first hostage, a young girl. Ten minutes later, he shoots her brother. The marksman has the robber in his sights. But he definitely should not shoot. The answer to violence is not violence. The robber kills a nun, and checks his watch.
So after a career on the public payroll, and living off public funds now, in an isolated buolic rural area, this tete du merde wants to lecture the WORLD on how it should maintain itself.
And the local Gannett fishwrap gives him a free platform.
If she's not careful, a tenured position at Cornell could be in the cards for her...
I should have known.
According to Google, Regenspan may teach in Binghamton, but she lives in Ithaca.
Another example of the City of Evil seeping out and infecting the rest of the Finger Lakes like a virus.
After years of telling my brother he was wasting time and his life living in Binghamton he has finally wised up and is moving to NC in a month.
Although a highly decorated Marine Officer (twice awarded the MOH) and in charge of the "War on Booze" for the city of Philadelphia in the 1920's, Gen Butler was never a Marine Corps Commandant.
COMMANDANTS OF THE MARINE CORPS |
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1st Commandant | Samuel Nicholas | 28 Nov 1775 -- August 1783 |
2d Commandant | William Ward Burrows |
12 Jul 1798 -- 6 Mar 1804 |
3d Commandant | Franklin Wharton |
7 Mar 1804 -- 1 Sep 1818 |
4th Commandant | Anthony Gale |
3 Mar 1819 -- 8 Oct 1820 |
5th Commandant | Archibald Henderson |
17 Oct 1820 -- 6 Jan 1859 |
6th Commandant | John Harris | 7 Jan 1859 -- 1 May 1864 |
7th Commandant | Jacob Zeilin | 10 Jun 1864 -- 31 Oct 1876 |
8th Commandant | Charles Grymes McCawley | 1 Nov 1876 -- 29 Jan 1891 |
9th Commandant | Charles Heywood | 30 Jun 1891 -- 2 Oct 1903 |
10th Commandant | George Frank Elliott | 3 Oct 1903 -- 30 Nov 1910 |
11th Commandant | William Phillips Biddle | 3 Feb 1911 -- 24 Feb 1914 |
12th Commandant | George Barnett | 25 Feb 1914 -- 30 Jun 1920 |
13th Commandant | John Archer Lejeune | 1 Jul 1920 -- 4 Mar 1929 |
14th Commandant | Wendell Cushing Neville | 5 Mar 1929 -- 8 Jul 1930 |
15th Commandant | Ben Hebard Fuller | 9 Jul 1930 -- 28 Feb 1934 |
16th Commandant | John Henry Russell, Jr. | 1 Mar 1934 -- 30 Nov 1936 |
17th Commandant | Thomas Holcomb | 1 Dec 1936 -- 31 Dec 1943 |
18th Commandant | Alexander Archer Vandegrift | 1 Jan 1944 -- 31 Dec 1947 |
19th Commandant | Clifton Bledsoe Cates | 1 Jan 1948 -- 31 Dec 1951 |
20th Commandant | Lemuel Cornick Shepherd, Jr. | 1 Jan 1952 -- 31 Dec 1955 |
21st Commandant | Randolph McCall Pate | 1 Jan 1956 -- 31 Dec 1959 |
22d Commandant | David Monroe Shoup | 1 Jan 1960 -- 31 Dec 1963 |
23d Commandant | Wallace Martin Greene, Jr. | 1 Jan 1964 -- 31 Dec 1967 |
24th Commandant | Leonard Fielding Chapman, Jr. | 1 Jan 1968 -- 31 Dec 1971 |
25th Commandant | Robert Everton Cushman, Jr. | 1 Jan 1972 -- 30 Jun 1975 |
26th Commandant | Louis Hugh Wilson | 1 Jul 1975 -- 30 Jun 1979 |
27th Commandant | Robert Hilliard Barrow | 1 Jul 1979 -- 30 Jun 1983 |
28th Commandant | Paul Xavier Kelley | 1 Jul 1983 -- 30 Jun 1987 |
29th Commandant | Alfred Mason Gray, Jr. | 1 Jul 1987 -- 30 Jun 1991 |
30th Commandant | Carl Epting Mundy, Jr. | 1 Jul 1991 -- 30 Jun 1995 |
31st Commandant | Charles Chandler Krulak | 1 Jul 1995 -- 30 Jun 1999 |
32d Commandant | James Logan Jones | 1 Jul 1999 -- Present |
Exhibit #1: Jack Gilroy.
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