If your blood hasn't boiled recently, this'll raise some bubbles. Former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant, Anthony Maschek, was shot 11 times in a Kirkuk firefight, then spent two-years of arduous recovery and rehab at Walter Reed. Now disabled, but very much alive, Anthony enrolled to study economics at Columbia University. Protesting the Vietnam War, Columbia had thrown ROTC off campus four-decades ago. In recent years, to keep their anti-military coals stoked, they, and some other U's, objected to the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, ironically fathered by their poster-president, Mr. Clinton. That gone, Columbia is once again considering ROTC, using campus surveys and town hall meetings to pulse feelings. At one such gathering, hoping to balance, negative military sentiment, war hero and now fellow student, Anthony Maschek, spoke to the group, saying among other things: "It doesn't matter how you feel about the war. It doesn't matter how you feel about fighting. There are bad men out there plotting to kill you."
Well, that reality was more than Academic dream-landers, who space-walk without a tether, could take. While some did appreciate his service, his true comment about the Islamic radical threat, actually drew jeers, heckles, even the "racist" label, a childish, robotic slander of a remarkable hero, for whom few there were fit to carry even his water-bottle. Shame on those clueless puppets, at the nation's select Alice-in-Wonderland campuses, encouraged to believe that the only truly bad nation on earth is America. Regardless, pledging their service and honor to the steadfast defense of this great nation, no matter the sacrifice, courageous warriors like Anthony Maschek will continue to go into harm's way to protect all citizens, those who love and respect America, as well as the delusional ones who don't.
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