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You remember the West Seattle High School anti-war student assembly we blogged about last week. Sound Politics has a follow-up, posting a firsthand account of the appalling event from Maj. Terry Thomas, USMC, who sent a letter to the Seattle School Board. Here’s an excerpt:
Upon entering the theater at 12:30 PM, approximately 15 minutes prior [...]

This is one of those stories you shouldn’t read if you have high blood pressure:
Three invited pro-military speakers were shocked last Friday when they arrived for a West Seattle High student assembly to confront a theater stage strewn with figures costumed as Iraqi men, women and children splashed with blood….
For Nadine Gulit of Operation Support [...]

Matt at Blackfive reports that the UAW parking fiasco that we first blogged about last week has been “resolved:”
I just received word that the UAW is backing off.
The US Marine Corps Reserve Battalion Commander had already made the decision to not allow any drilling Marine Reservists to park in the UAW lot - he thinks [...]

For years the UAW Solidarity House in Detroit has let Marine reservists park in its lot while the reservists undergo weekend training.
Now, however, WXYZ.com reports that UAW has begun placing some restrictions on reservists’ parking privileges:
Marines at nearby Marine Corps Reserve Center say on Tuesday morning, the director of security at the UAW told them [...]

Here’s a surprisingly fair report from the N.Y. Times on the violence and harassment faced by campus military recruiters. Excerpt:
Since the beginning of 2003, there have also been more than a dozen other often violent incidents aimed at military recruiters or property throughout the country, according to the police, recruiters and the Federal Bureau of [...]

Lots of readers keep sending me a link to this anti-military site: Forsake the Troops.
Not going to link to it myself. Here’s the address if you must see it: www.forsakethetroops.info.
True or Better has background on the guy who apparently created the site. Seems he has pulled a similar stunt before.
Whether it’s a hoax or not, [...]

The University of Oregon has reportedly ordered an employee to remove a “Support Our Troops” magnet from his maintenance vehicle because it’s a “political statement” in violation of school policy. KEZI News reports:
“I don’t know how they think these are political. I think they’re patriotic,” said Pete Baker, U of O delivery driver. Pete Baker [...]

How did Delta Airlines and one its passengers treat a Marine trying to get home for her child’s second birthday while on a short leave from Iraq? A letter to the editor in the Benton Courier, linked by Marine Corps Moms, recounted the outrageous incident. Excerpt:
This letter is to the young female soldier from Benton, [...]

My friend Mike Fumento has written a provocative article (he doesn’t write any other kind!) on the F/A-22 Raptor fighter for the American Spectator. Excerpt:
It made sense to kill the Crusader self-propelled howitzer program, a bulky cold war left-over developing so slowly it wouldn’t be available before the Starship Enterprise. We also didn’t need the [...]