{"id":22343,"date":"2011-02-20T12:24:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T16:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22343"},"modified":"2011-02-20T12:27:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T16:27:13","slug":"columbia-u-students-heckled-wounded-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22343","title":{"rendered":"Columbia U students heckled wounded vet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROS and Old Trooper send us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/m.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/manhattan\/hero_unwelcome_Zi3u1fwtRpo87vXAiAQfSN\">NY Post<\/a> about a rally at Columbia University in NYC at a town hall-style meeting in regards to returning ROTC to the campus. The speaker was Anthony Maschek, a former Army staff sergeant who had been shot eleven times and spent two year recovering at Walter Reed. Amid shouts of &#8220;Racist!&#8221; Maschek mounted the platform;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter how you feel about the war. It doesn&#8217;t matter how you feel about fighting,&#8221; said Maschek. &#8220;There are bad men out there plotting to kill you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several students laughed and jeered the Idaho native, a 10th Mountain Division infantryman who spent two years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington recovering from grievous wounds. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the college&#8217;s main argument against allowing the ROTC back on campus had always been because of the ban on gays in the military, but since the ban has been lifted, they have find another excuse;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Transpeople are part of the Columbia community,&#8221; said senior Sean Udell at the meeting, referring to the military&#8217;s current ban on transgender soldiers. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, they don&#8217;t want to support war, but transgendered should be allowed to fight with the military, too? No wonder they&#8217;re still students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROS and Old Trooper send us a link to the NY Post about a rally at &hellip; <a title=\"Columbia U students heckled wounded vet\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22343\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Columbia U students heckled wounded vet<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-hate-hippies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}