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It's been covered elsewhere in the alternative media; the U of Washington Student Senate has rejected building a memorial to U of W alum and World War II hero Gregory "Pappy" Boyington.
The University of Washington's student senate rejected a memorial for alumnus Gregory "Pappy" Boyington of "Black Sheep Squadron" fame amid concerns a military hero who shot down enemy planes was not the right kind of person to represent the school.
Student senator Jill Edwards, according to minutes of the student government's meeting last week, said she "didn't believe a member of the Marine Corps was an example of the sort of person UW wanted to produce."
Ashley Miller, another senator, argued "many monuments at UW already commemorate rich white men."
Senate member Karl Smith amended the resolution to eliminate a clause that said Boyington "was credited with destroying 26 enemy aircraft, tying the record for most aircraft destroyed by a pilot in American Uniform," for which he was awarded the Navy Cross.
Smith, according to the minutes, said "the resolution should commend Colonel Boyington's service, not his killing of others."
Good lord. Who spawns these morons?
Here's why they should honor Boyington; coming from humble beginnings, we went to school and got an engineering degree. He joined the Marine Corps via ROTC, then left to serve in the American Volunteer Group, aka the Flying Tigers, a group of American mercenary pilots fighting against the Japanese in China. Then, after coming back to the States, resuming duty in the USMC, leading his squadron against the Japanese, and tying Joe Foss' kill record, he was shot down - and spent the rest of the war surviving the hell of the Japanese POW camp system.
He came back, struggled with alcoholism, recovered (at least, according to many accounts including Boyington's own), and lived until 1988. He was no saint - the guy had issues - but he was a hero every bit as much because of what he survived as who he killed.
In other words, the kind of role model that our spoiled, dissipate, entitlement-craving college students could use, in a lot of ways.
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February 17, 2006 05:53 PM
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This one is just about enough to make me climb up in a bell tower with a rifle.
Do these parameciums ever stop to think *why* Pappy Boyington was shooting at the Japanese? Could it perhaps have a teensy weensy something to do with Pearl Harbor?
Do these fecal matters consider what the world would've looked like if people like Pappy Boyington hadn't got in the way of the Japanese?
I tell ya, between this and the antediluvian Left's response to the Midwest Heroes ads, it's almost time to just throw open the gates and let the Visigoths in. We're doomed anyway.
GGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Posted by: Jeff at February 17, 2006 04:37 PMIt's a bunch of 19-year-olds. They're supposed to be stupid. You right-wingers really need to relax. Have a couple drinks and shoot somebody in the face. That always seems to cheer you guys up.
Posted by: angryclown at February 17, 2006 06:20 PMNow now, Clown. The nice lawyer appologized for getting in the way of Mr. Cheney's bird shot. That should satisfy your sense of irony.
Posted by: Kermit at February 17, 2006 08:52 PM"They're supposed to be stupid."
Ahh, memories.
That's what my mom always said to me when I'd get on a rant about lefty's.
Posted by: swiftee at February 17, 2006 09:32 PM"the resolution should commend Colonel Boyington's service, not his killing of others." ???????
What are they missing here? His service was the killing of others: the Japanese that bombed Pearl Harbor, committed the Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March.
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." George S. Patton
Posted by: Scott at February 17, 2006 10:03 PMIt sounds like "Student senator" Jill Edwards has prepared herself wonderfully to be a professional victim. The kind of person that would last about five minutes if ever subjected to the kind of hell Boyington lived through.
Posted by: RBMN at February 17, 2006 11:48 PMMmmmm...chickenhawk.
Posted by: angryclown at February 18, 2006 08:32 AMAC, these chickenhawks are celebrating the service and sacrifice of others. You feel this is a bad thing?
Posted by: billhedrick at February 18, 2006 09:50 AMI think the Clown simply adores the sacrifice of others. Stress, OTHERS (not the LOST variety, though who really knoes?).
Posted by: Kermit at February 18, 2006 07:44 PM"It's a bunch of 19-year-olds. They're supposed to be stupid."
And another ringing endorsement of the public school system. I imagine it's from not enough money going to Education; at least that's what my liberal teachers taught me. "Won't someone think of the children?!"
Posted by: Painteddog at February 19, 2006 07:33 PMWow. The rightwing loony-toons are out in force on this one, ain't they? How about, intead of climbing that clock tower, you just blow your OWN brains out instead, and do something helpful for society for once?
Posted by: Hesiod at February 22, 2006 03:14 AM