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发帖数: 29846 | 1 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/22/columbia-university-studen
Columbia University students heckled a war hero during a town hall meeting
on whether ROTC should be allowed back on campus, the New York Post reported
Sunday.
Some students yelled "Racist!" at Anthony Maschek, a Columbia freshman and
former army staff sergeant who was awarded the Purple Heart after being shot
11 times in a firefight in northern Iraq in February 2008.
Maschek, 28, bravely stepped up to the mike Tuesday to issue an impassioned
challenge to fellow students on their perceptions of the military.
"It doesn't matter how you feel about the war. It doesn't matter how you
feel about fighting," said Maschek. "There are bad men out there plotting to
kill you."
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.
Maschek, who is studying economics, miraculously survived the insurgent
attack in Kirkuk. In the hail of gunfire, he broke both legs and suffered
wounds to his abdomen, arm and chest. He enrolled in August at the Ivy
League school, where an increasingly ugly battle is unfolding over the 42-
year military ban there.
More than half of the students who spoke at the meeting -- the second of
three hearings on the subject -- expressed opposition to ROTC's return.
The university created a task force to poll 10,000 students on the issue but
declined to release the vote tally of the 1,300 who so far responded. |
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