frustrated in college...

[armyUJ]

I don't know how many of you are in college right now, and if you are, I'm sorry...From a kid who is applying to West Point for the 3rd time and in the process of applying for USMC OCS, I cannot believe the amount of disrespect towards American soldiers coming from college campuses. The students at my school show absolutely no gratitude, and even worse, neither do the professors. I get harrassed when I wear Operation Enduring Freedom shirts, or military unit shirts. College is far too liberal for me to begin with, now this war makes it 10 times worse, I was just curious if anyone else at college gets this or maybe its just where I am...
sorry, just had to vent...

[rafaelcb]

Relax and just consider it part of your growing experience. No one said becoming a soldier would be easy.

"God gave you a soul,
Your parents a body,
your country a Rifle.
Keep all of them clean"

[warchild1/27scout]

don't worry about it.those kids grow up sometime and then are embarrassed once they get a taste of real life. :oops:

[Apogee]

no here, but its a little different ball game...

[JiJoMacLE45]

I graduated from college nearly six years ago and it was the same way then so it is no surprise to me that is has escalated now. I was real good friends with a couple of ROTC guys and they used to get slagged all the time b/c they were affiliated w/ the military. It's sad b/c most of the kids doing the ripping are kids who have never had to earn anything in their lives. They are in college on someone else's dime, whether it be their parents, or even worse, they are going to school on some sort of student aide provided by the same government that they seem to loathe so much, but they seem to have no problem with that government funding their seven year trek to a bachelors degree in basket weaving and five day weekend kegger binges. Just one of those things that make America so great.

[papabear]

Self-righteousness and exaggerated moral indignation come easily to everyone; it's something we should be on a constant guard against.

[kilroy]

I'm a junior in high school right now, and I'm planning on going into Army ROTC in college (want to go into MI). I go to a fairly affluent, liberal high school (next kid I see with a communist revolution shirt that has never worked dies!!), yet I have not encountered anything but support from those around me and especially my teachers. Best of luck to you on the OCS and Westpoint application. I have a few friends at Westpoint, and they say that its incredible.

[armyUJ]

thanks man, hopefully 3rd time is the charm...

[Midtown]

God I hear ya man, I plan on enlisting in the army after I'm done in college, and I wear army shirts often, and I get into huge arguments with people, there were anti-war posters everywhere, so I started making Pro-Liberate Iraq, and Support your soldiers ones, and the artsy whiners got pissed and started writting crap on mine, or taking them down, and now on my car I made up a bumpersticker that sez "support your soldiers" and another that says "Protesters suck, Do something productive" I wont be suprised if someone rips em off, or keys my car. Most of this crap at my college is headed by some artsy teacher punk.