Posted on 08/02/2007 9:15:38 AM PDT by Sopater
I posted the same sentiment before, saying I wouldn’t want to see anyone in the military that couldn’t find out the information on their own...I was ridiculed...hahaha...folks make too much out this trivial matter....
I agree, I don’t really see why they need to recruit at high schools.
Toward the end of the war, Dad was working in the Bremerton Navy Yard. Family lore is that as an infant, I was cradled in your friend’s arms.
Thats fine. Just limit federal funds to Washington state in kind.
Other school districts in the state have put limits on the military recruiting. A friend of mine, who is a school principal, tells me that they are forced to put limits on the recruiting because the anti-war activist groups demand equal access to the kids and over whelm them with requests. She said that they just can’t accommodate everyone.
They’re teaching the kids the art of surrender.
As was I. I still have a pair of goggles he gave me when I was a kid. We also both happen to be alums of the UofW, which gave America six Medal of Honor recipients.
Cut off ALL FEDERAL EDUCATION $$$ going into that soviet-styled State!
LLS
Correction: seven.
Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, Col., USMC (1934)
The Marines’ WWII ace, Boyington downed 28 enemy planes before being captured by the Japanese and spending the rest of the conflict in a prisoner of war camp. His squadron’s exploits became the basis for the 1970s TV series, Baa Baa Black Sheep.
Deming Bronson, 1LT, USA (1915)
This UW graduate won a Medal of Honor in World War I for capturing enemy prisoners near Eclisfontaine, France, in 1918. He was wounded by a hand grenade and a bullet and still led his unit to capture enemy positions. At the UW, he was a forestry major and played Husky football from 1912-1916 under legendary Coach Gil Dobie.
Robert E. Galer, BGen, USMC (1935)
As a Marine Corps major in August and September of 1942, he repeatedly engaged Japanese aerial forces in combat, “individually shooting down 11 enemy bomber and fighter aircraft over a period of 29 days,” according to the text of his medal citation. Galer was himself shot down four times during his service in World War II and Korea. He retired as a brigadier general in 1957.
John D. “Bud” Hawk, Sgt., USA (1952)
Army Sgt. Hawk was wounded on August 20, 1944, in France when the German army was trying to escape its encirclement following the Normandy invasion. A portion of his medal citation reads, “Sgt. Hawk’s fearless initiative and heroic conduct, even while suffering from a painful wound, was in large measure responsible for crushing two desperate attempts of the enemy to escape from the Falaise Pocket and for taking more than 500 prisoners.”
Robert Leisy, 2LT, USA (1968)
He served as a 2nd Lt. in the Vietnam War and was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. During an engagement in Phuoc Long Province, Leisy’s unit was ambushed by a far larger force of North Vietnamese soldiers. He shielded his men from a rocket grenade attack and died of the wounds on Dec. 2, 1969. He was 24.
William K. Nakamura, PFC, USA (attended, 1940s)
Forced to leave the UW because of the internment of Japanese Americans in 1942, William Kenzo Nakamura enlisted in the famous 442nd Regiment Combat Team, the most decorated military unit in U.S. history. He died in Italy on the Fourth of July, 1944, while providing cover for his pinned-down platoon. He attended the UW in the early 1940s.
Archie Van Winkle, Col., USMC (1961)
Van Winkle was awarded the Medal of Honor for action in Korea. On November 2, 1950, Van Winkle led a daring charge through withering enemy fire during which a bullet shattered his arm and an enemy hand grenade exploded against his chest. Though severely wounded, he refused to be evacuated, and continued to shout orders and encouragement to his men while lying on the ground weak from loss of blood. His heroic leadership enabled the outnumbered platoon to repulse a fanatical enemy attack.
Granted on the "old war heros thing". Every state has heros from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
My comment pertains to the average young liberal in Seattle now, who could care less about your old war heros or what they sacrificed for them.
Didn’t the punks at UW protest the erection of a statue of Pappy Boyinton?
Alas, we’ve fallen a long way since those days... ;’{
It sounds as if these veterans should be more active in local politics to curb the abuses of leftist wackos on the school boards.
Then they need to become far more vocal because right now it looks like the loonies are running the farm up there.
Hippie protesters do nothing but create dissent, invent new injustices, and generally make the quality of life in America worse for all.
That people listen to them at all is a disgrace and a sign of a society so ill that it is unlikely we will ever recover.
I guess they just don’t need fedfunds
I seem to remember in the 1970s....that other than the annual county student job/education fair...that was the only time that recruiters met with students. I know...because the AF guy gave his speech at the fair, and convinced me that this was the best idea to go and spend four years doing service. I don’t see a big issue here...it was acceptable that way then...and no one made a big deal about it.
Pull Seattle’s federal assistance. All of it.
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