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What a bunch of spoiled little punks.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...Rpo87vXAiAQfSN

Hero's unwelcome

Wounded Iraq vet jeered at Columbia

By ANNIE KARNI

Last Updated: 9:06 AM, February 20, 2011

Posted: 12:10 AM, February 20, 2011

Columbia University students heckled a war hero during a town-hall meeting on whether ROTC should be allowed back on campus.

"Racist!" some students yelled at Anthony Maschek, a Columbia freshman and former Army staff sergeant awarded the Purple Heart after being shot 11 times in a firefight in northern Iraq in February 2008. Others hissed and booed the veteran.

Maschek, 28, had bravely stepped up to the mike Tuesday at the meeting 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 last August at the Ivy League school, where an increasingly ugly battle is unfolding over the 42-year military ban there.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...#ixzz1EYqPmdTN

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Does anyone have more on the story? I'm curious, but reading from the NY FOX, aka the Post, doesn't give me much information. Especially looking at the slanted words listed.

Afterall, if the story says the students are calling the soldier "racist," a decent paper would explain why they were saying that. The linked article does not.