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Posted on 02/18/2006 6:51:29 AM PST by KeyLargo
UW Student Senate To Vote Again On Memorial
February 16, 2006
By Bryan Johnson
SEATTLE - The University of Washington Student Senate is expected to vote again on a memorial to honor five former students awarded Congressional Medals of Honor.
Earlier this month the Senate deadlocked 45-45 on a proposal to honor Gregory "Pappy" Boyington. The student president then cast the deciding vote "No".
Now the student who proposed the campus memorial is suggesting honoring all five former students and some members of the Senate tell KOMO 4 News that is more likely to pass.
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington shot down 28 Japanese planes in World War II. He headed the Black Sheep Squadron, and got the nickname "Pappy" because he was so much older that those he led.
Kevin Cuba, the military curator at the Museum of Flight, says everything Boyington did was controversial: "He was haunted by his shortcomings most of his life. And I would say his entire career was fraught with controversy."
Boyington had a reputation of being a womanizer and a heavy drinker, but he was "a hell of a pilot."
He was one of four UW graduates to be awarded the Medal of Honor, a fifth student who did not graduate also received the award.
Student Andrew Everett wanted to honor all of them. He started with Boyington: "Pappy Boyington was the most famous. He wrote a book. There was a TV show about him. He was a legend a media celebrity of his day."
His Black Sheep squadron is featured in the Personal Courage Wing of the Museum of Flight. But fame is fleeting.
Students who spoke with KOMO 4 News today had little to no knowledge of Boyington. One ROTC student knew he was a flier, but could add no details. Another had never heard of Boyington.
The students are also too young to remember the TV series "Baa, Baa Black Sheep". Robert Conrad played Boyington.
By one vote, The UW student government said no to a memorial. Perhaps it was Robert Conrad, not Pappy Boyington, that led one student to say there are enough statues to rich white men.
The flight museum curator says it's sad students know so little about Boyington's fight to save their lifestyle: "He didn't just volunteer to go into combat. He begged to go into combat. He wanted to serve his country and he did."
Some who oppose a memorial to Pappy Boyington say that would honor war.
They may not realize that stately trees lining the main entrance to the campus honor 58 UW members who died in World War I.
"...little to no knowledge..."
Yes, it gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing that your tax dollars are spent wisely on higher education.
Man Without Honor
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=021706H
This says a whole lot about the lack of teaching history in the state of Washington. Maybe they should do away with the teachers union there and hire some real Americans instead. Shame on those idiots for allowing this.
I think that this explains it all!
They are all stoned!
Washington, the state that elects Patty Murray, a lefty Democrat Senator who constantly reminds everyone that she was a school teacher. It figures.
HE FOUGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY ... BUT HE'S NOT WORTHY.
His name was Gregory Boyington. Some called him "Pappy." He served as a combat pilot in World War II with the 1st Squadron, American Volunteer Group. This squadron was known as the Flying Tigers of China. Boyington later served as a combat pilot for the U.S. Marine Corps. He commanded Marine Fighting Squadron 214. Perhaps you've heard of this squadron. It was called the Black Sheep Squadron and was later featured in a TV series called "Baa Baa, Black Sheep." Boyington shot down 26 Japanese aircraft while serving in the Pacific. He was later shot down and spent 20 months in a Japanese POW camp. For those of you who aren't up to par on World War II history, Japanese POW camps were not happy places. Torture .. .and we mean real torture, not stripping them naked and taking snapshots. After the war Pappy Boyington was awarded the Navy Cross and the Medal of Honor. He died in 1988. You can visit his grave in Arlington National Cemetery.
Education? Oh yes! Almost forgot! Pappy Boyington was a graduate of the University of Washington. Just recently the idea of erecting a memorial to this Medal of Honor winner at the University of Washington made its way to the student senate. Here you have an alumnus who served in World War II. was captured and held, and was later awarded the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross. Perhaps some sort of monument would be a good idea!
Well .. not to Jill Edwards. Thanks to the folks at WorldNetDaily we can show you a copy of the minutes of a meeting of the student senate at the University of Washington. Under old business there was a discussion of a resolution calling for a tribute to Pappy Boyington. Student senate member Jill Edwards immediately moved to table the resolution. She wanted other issues to be considered. Another member said that the issue was at the top of the agenda and should be dealt with. Jill's motion failed, but she wasn't through. There was then some discussion on why Andrew Everett, another student senate member, wanted the memorial. Everett responded that Colonel Boyington "had many of the qualities the University of Washington hoped to produce in its students." Well, I guess that might be true, if leadership and courage are considered to be good qualities. Anyway ... that's when Jill Edwards spoke up and showed her true colors. She questioned whether it was appropriate to honor a person who killed other people. Then the lovely Jill Edwards said that a member of the Marine Corps was not an example of the sort of person the University of Washington wanted to produce.
Shall I repeat that? Jill Edwards, a Junior in Mathematics at the University of Washington, says that a U.S. Marine is not --- that's right, NOT the example of the sort of person that the University of Washington wants to produce. Let's let this sink in. To all of you men and women out there who have served with pride in the United States Marine Corps; to those of you who fought in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East, Jill Edwards, student senate member at the University of Washington, thinks that you are unworthy to be graduates of the University of Washington. My father was a Marine. He's buried in the National Cemetery at Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas beneath a grave market that reads "Neal A Boortz, Sr. Lt. Col. USMC. World War II, Korea, Vietnam." Therefore, I think that Jill Edwards is an ignorant fool. I would submit that Jill Edwards is am embarrassment to the University of Washington. With her mathematics degree and her leftist outlook on life my guess is that she'll end up being a teacher in a government school. Oh goody.
By the way .. there's at least one more moonbat on the U of W student senate. Her name is Ashley Miller. Ashley says that there are already enough monuments at UW commemorating "rich white men." Well .. I guess you have to get that wealth-envy stuff in there somewhere.
Don't you just love these young people? They're so much fun to watch during those magic years when they know everything and when they have all of the answers to every problem facing mankind. As I said the other day, we should take 100 volunteer members of university student senates from across the country --- and let's make sure Jill Edwards is one of them --- and give them a country to run for four years. Haiti would do just fine.
On Neal Boortz's site, Feb. 15, 2006
On the other side of the country, you have MD voting in a social worker to Congress.
More on the 16th.
http://boortz.com/nuze/200602/02162006.html
"They may not realize that stately trees lining the main entrance to the campus honor 58 UW members who died in World War I."
Well, I think they should cut down those trees.
Those trees glorify war.
Kevin Cuba, the military curator at the Museum of Flight, says everything Boyington did was controversial: "He was haunted by his shortcomings most of his life. And I would say his entire career was fraught with controversy."Boyington had a reputation of being a womanizer and a heavy drinker, but he was "a hell of a pilot."
The "controversy" that tabled this memorial proposal was not drinking or womanizing. It was the fact that he "killed people" in war. The media is spinnng again.
"The UW student government said no to a memorial. Perhaps it was Robert Conrad, not Pappy Boyington, that led one student to say there are enough statues to rich white men. "
Simple racism at its most obvious.
Martin Luther King was a womanizer, plagerizer, pimp and felon, but then again he wasn't a white "rich" guy.
To my knowledge Boyington could not even hold down a job and died in poverty.
It is appalling to me that the children who comprise the student Senate are as ignorant of history and of the issues they are making judgements about.
They are fitting clones of the caricatures currently serving in the US House and Senate.
We can all be assured that with replacements like these in the wings, the US government will continue merrily on its way of ignorance, incompetence, malfeasance and irrelevance.
Boyington was 1/2 Sioux, no? So, uh, isn't he a sacred minority? Or, that's not Native enough? Which way is it?
It's like the attack on our Founding Fathers -- they are not candidates for sainthood; they set forth standards for governance that are unmatched. I guess only libs are allowed to have personal faults and be imperfect.
So, Betty Freidan can be a witch of a wife, and have African American "help" at her home meetings, but she's supposed to represent all women, especially the poor suburban concentration camp wives.
Margaret Mead, that fraud, went to the field with a pre-concieved gameplan of what she was going to "prove", and participated/lied to make sure she got that result. And she's an icon in anthropology?
Let's not even get started on our Congresscritters...
"Martin Luther King was a womanizer, plagerizer, pimp and felon, but then again he wasn't a white "rich" guy."
Yes, and every large city has at least one street and one school named after him. Yet, I have heard of no one blocking that!
"It's like the attack on our Founding Fathers..."
Yes, and all of the history books and MSM refer to those old white men as the "Framers", so as not to offend NOW and the feminists.
What? Were those men a bunch of carpenters??
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