{"id":32446,"date":"2012-10-17T14:01:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T18:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32446"},"modified":"2012-10-17T14:01:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T18:01:50","slug":"anti-military-vibes-at-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32446","title":{"rendered":"Anti-military “vibes” at college"},"content":{"rendered":"

Green Thumb sends us a link from NBC entitled “Stray anti-military vibes reverberate as thousands of veterans head to college<\/a>” which recounts some experiences of some troops as they try to re-enter their communities as college students after a decade of war. For example;<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy should we pay for these guys to go to college?\u201d [Scott] Hakim said he recalls a female student asking during a discussion on the nation\u2019s responsibility to service members returning from war. \u201cEverybody who goes into the military is stupid \u2013 that\u2019s why they joined the military instead of going to college.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hakim \u2013 a Marine infantryman in Iraq and Afghanistan \u2013 immediately vowed to out-study every classmate on the midterm exam and said he ultimately posted the highest mark: 98 out of 100. Later, he said, he overheard that same female student reveal her grade: F. <\/p>\n

\u201cI guess I proved her wrong,\u201d Hakim said. \u201cIt wasn’t a me-versus-her thing, more like: Maybe now she realizes how idiotic her statement was.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that’s the proper response. Every member of the military who went to college after their service has had to deal with pinheads, both students and teachers, who think we’re stupid and lazy when we’re not busy killing babies and eating live puppies. But they’re not the reason we went to do our duty (that, by the way, you’d never catch any of those doofuses doing even if we didn’t), and they’re not the reason we’re in college. <\/p>\n

Yeah, I can tell you stories about communists who were upset that they’d just lost the Cold War and decided to make me pay by working harder for my grades than the other skulls full of mush. But then I was never quiet about their inability to tell the whole truth, so it was partly my fault, I suppose. But, on the other hand, I found some teachers who were simpatico, and those were the ones who got my repeat business.<\/p>\n

The goal of college is to graduate and get that piece of paper in your hand so you can begin your new life, f**k everything else. Let the teenagers go to college for the social experience. You’ve already had the greatest social experience of your life that will last you all your days – and you’ve accomplished more than most of them ever will. Their opinions of you don’t count, because they can’t can’t even imagine what your life has been like.<\/p>\n

The biases against veterans won’t end in college, either. I’ve had co-workers and supervisors tell me to my face that all veterans are crazy. But they still think that college was tough. They have no idea. Personally, I have no friends, either at or outside of work who aren’t veterans, because civilians just generally piss me off. I reached that point the first few months I was in college.<\/p>\n

Your mileage may vary, but that’s just me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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