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Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips Army Gives Money To Harvard clipped by: merrie clippers remarks: The minister who gave the invocation could barely disguise his disgust for the military, while the president of a university that declines to be involved in the cadets? military education felt compelled to condescendingly hand out copies of ?Just And Unjust War,? as if they might not be familiar with the concept. Having Gen. Petraeus on hand seemed to be a draw, though. Big crowd that cheered and clapped a lot. Here?s Harvard student handbook warning to students: Current federal policy of excluding known lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals from admission to ROTC or of discharging them from service is inconsistent with Harvard?s values as stated in its policy on discrimination. (See Harvard?s policy on discrimination on page 292.) Although the University respects the right of undergraduates to choose to participate in ROTC, the University does not provide any financial or other direct support for the ROTC program at MIT. Clip Source: www.julescrittenden.com Army Gives Money To Harvard Even though Harvard barely gives the Army the time of day.* The University of Michigan, Columbia and Harvard are splitting a $50 million grant to study military suicides. Chicago Tribune. The University of Michigan apparently has on-campus ROTC. But it looks like Columbia?s ROTC students, like those who rub shoulders with the privileged elites at Harvard, have to go off-campus to other nearby universities to attend military science classes, due to the Ivy League?s holdover Vietnam War-era antipathy, with ?don?t ask, don?t tell? being the current excuse. * I attended the this year?s ROTC commissioning at Harvard, having friends involved with the program. Harvard only recently began allowing formal ROTC ceremonies on campus. It take ROTC stipends, but sends the cadets to MIT for their military courses. Tags: academia, gen patraeus, military zum Artikel... Whats trashed at Arlington National Cemetery clipped by: brightlight4 clippers remarks: Left out in the rain to rot were crayon drawings by children who had lost a parent, photographs of soldiers with their babies, painted portraits and thank-you notes from grade-school kids to fallen soldiers they had never known. Colors of artworks ran together. Photos were blurred and wilted. Poems and letters were illegible wads of wet paper. A worker in a brown uniform wandered among the graves, blasting the headstones with a power washer without regard to what was left of the mementos -- or the obviously uncomfortable mourners looking on. Some items got further soaked. The worker blasted others across the grass. Many of them would end up in a black trash bin in the cemeterys service area. Arlingtons poor treatment of the mementos and gifts -- testaments to the personal cost of the post-9/11 wars in the Middle East -- appeared to stand in contrast to practices at other cemeteries. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which runs 130 cemeteries across the country, asks people Clip Source: www.salon.com Whats trashed at Arlington National Cemetery Many personal mementos of dead soldiers are being thrown out -- a stark contrast to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial View a slide show of personal mementos thrown out at Arlington National Cemetery and those preserved at the Vietnam "wall." July 17, 2009 | A few days after Memorial Day, I walked across the sprawling, plush lawn of Arlington National Cemetery. I headed toward Section 60, a remote area of the famous burial ground, where 600 service members from Iraq and Afghanistan are laid to rest. Gina Gray, former public affairs officer at the cemetery, had testified that mismanagement at Arlington had resulted in callous treatment of personal mementos and artifacts left on grave sites in Section 60. The sun was out after several days of rain. As I approached the gravestones, I saw that Gray was right. zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de