"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ps.com...
After last month's debacle, with anti-war-indoctrinated college kids
refusing to honor Medal of Honor winner (and UW alumnus) Pappy
Boyington, it's nice to see that reason has prevailed in Washington
State:

Well, yes and no.

In some respects, this memorial is more inclusive than the proposed one,
since it honors ALL Medal of Honor recipients. So I think that's a good
thing. On the other hand, it doesn't address the (presumably valid) reason
that Boyington had been singled out for the memorial in the first place.

Of course, the whole thing is just silly. I heard ridiculous comments like
"we shouldn't be praising people who kill other people". Or the complaint
that as part of the recognition, Boyington was noted as having shot down 30
(I think that was the number...might be wrong) enemy planes. Give me a
break...what do those people think we pay our armed services to do?

I hate war. I abhor killing. But we have to be prepared to do just that,
and for those people whose job it is to actually DO the killing, recognizing
them for a job well done necessarily means that they will be recognized for
the numbers of people that they kill. And they certainly SHOULD be
recognized for a job well done.

Of course, I do remember what it was like to be a college student, and
things seemed a lot more black & white back then. So I do understand where
these kids are coming from. But I'm concerned that at no point during this
debate did they really have their eyes opened to the reality of the
situation, and to the underlying inconsistency of their stance.

Oh well...at least we have the memorial now.

Pete