A Heartening Response

Yesterday's post touched a lot of nerves so I'm glad I can post some positive headway on this issue. I wrote to the Marine Officer Instructor at the University of Washington's NROTC unit, of which I am an alum. The current MOI is a good friend who I not only went to college with, but also went through the cauldron of OCS with. That he is the man in charge there at UW is as strange to me as it is testament that these positions draw only the best Officers. The strangeness doesn't come from the fact that he shouldn't be there but that the buddy I remember was a young, unseasoned kid in my memory. Obviously a decade has changed that but he will always be that "Tim" that I knew in the past.

Anyway, here is his response to the situation:

This issue has blown up and was even on Fox News this weekend. The student senate was split on the vote, and the decision was made by the VP. The voices of opposition had very ill-founded, ignorant comments supporting their argument and that has sparked a vigorous exchange of commentary. The Daily and local newspapers are all chock full of OPEDs blasting this issue. The good news is that the ASUW is proposing that Jill Edwards make a formal apology, and a motion is to be presented to memorialize all five of the CMoH recipients (which I think is more appropriate) instead of just Pappy. My students are a bit aggravated by the developments, to say the least.