WA: Pappy Boyington Memorial Blocked at U-Dub

Paradosis | 2/10/06

[llevrok]

I take it you don't like them? \sarc

[Bigh4u2]

This is what the disgusting little buggers had to say.

The minutes! (Go to the bottom of the fifth page)

http://senate.asuw.org/secretary/minutes/senate/12/02-07-2006.pdf

[VOA]

bump

[Road Warrior ‘04]

http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/camplists/tokyo/omori/omori_yanks.html

List of POW's at Omori. Boyington and my father were there.

[jazusamo]

Thanks for the post. Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and Medal of Honor recipient, did more for our country during WWII than any of these students speaking out against him will ever know. These are some of the same students who try to prevent military recruiters from coming on campus. Hopefully, as some of them mature, they will come to realize they have their freedom due to heroes like Col. Boyington.

[calex59]

As a kid that grew up during and after WWII, I feel for the heros of that war. Almost everyone I knew had a relative of some kind that was either killed, wounded or had made it through without a scratch, but they all had relatives that had served in WWII. All these relatives were heros to us.

I had an uncle who was a marine and whose influence caused me to joint the army in 1959(don't ask me why not the marines, I just don't know).

For Pappy to not be recognized for the hero he was is disgraceful and these people should be slapped upside the head.

All the people who served during WWII are heros, people who put their lives on the line, the odds were very good they wouldn't make it back.

[VanDeKoik]

Sweet Jesus! Now I remember why I hate most college kids! I wish we could bring back the whole of the WW2 generation, make them 25, and unleash them on society. They would slap some sense into these Brokeback numbskulls before dinner!

[ConorMacNessa]

And rich imperial Japanese.

[xkaydet65]

I had a relevant issue in my clas yesterday. I have a Korean ninth grader who wouldn't stand for the Pledge. I don't force the kids to say it, but I demand they stand in respect. I took him aside and asked where in Korea he was from. Seoul. I told him my uncle Joe spent five months defending his country from June to November 1950, and 34 months in a Chinese POW hell after he was captured on the C'hong C'hong. I would not let that sacrifice be disrespected in my presence and I would visit his home with a picture on my uncle to shame his parents.

[llevrok]

My God. I recently read a book about Philippines POW camps. I hope Omori was even half more civilized.

So many brave and strong men were brutalized by the japs in these camps.

[Rev DMV]

My college history professors specialty was millitary avaition history. He had an interrview with Pappy that he had done that he had lent to me to listen. I wish I had made a copy of that. It was interesting to hear things straight from the the horses mouth.(unedited, hoo boy)

[Texas_Jarhead]

Jill Edwards and Ashley Miller are stupid @!#$%n idiots.

[Little Bill]

Give me a link! I lived in Spokane when I was a kid. I remember my old mans friends, WW2 Vets; Marines, Army, Coasties, Navy, would be disgusted by this.

[ExcursionGuy84]

"idiots" is TOO Nice of a term for those "Zero-ounce-of-gray-matter" psych-a-doodle-doos.

[goodnesswins]

WOW.....YOU DID GREAT!!!!!

[Bigh4u2]

And that's putting it 'mildly'!

I can think of a lot worse names!

[barj]

I met him a few times at El Toro. While he frequently had too much to drink on those occasions, he was a great guy. Definately a drinking problem, though. Miss him.

[clintonh8r]

These turds don't deserve the protections and liberties provided to them by men like Boyington. Semper fi.