Too many American's, military service is an alien concept which has gone the way of the VCR, but for a few it's a way of life. Many of the elite campuses across the nation have banned ROTC from participating, including various Ivy league schools. Harvard has banned the Reserve Officers' Training Corps from campus since the Vietnam conflict, and the few students who participate--by traveling to MIT to take corps classes--feel an awkward distance from their own college.
Drew Faust, Harvard president, drew renewed attention to Harvard's awkward relationship with the military two weeks ago when he said, the Reserve Officers' Training Corps will be banned from campus until gay men and women are allowed to serve openly in the armed forces.
First the ban was in response to the Vietnam War, but that ended in 1973, why wasn't it reinstated? Now it's because of the military's policy on allowing gay men and women to serve openly. It will always be something!
It's too bad that we speak of freedom, and then in the very next breath condemn those who provide the freedom we so cherish. The armed forces of this nation are fighting for the very freedom we hold dear, but unfortunately the nation doesn't feel the same way. How many of us know someone in their immediate family who has served in both Iraq or Afghanistan? Or for that matter serve in the armed forces today? The military is for someone else's child. The situation above will not even cause a ripple of concern--how sad!
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