Citing ‘gun violence,’ UVA cancels 21-gun salute portion of Veterans Day ceremony

[Dave B.]

What has America come to?

Dave

 

[peerson]

That is a very good question

 

[jeanmarie]

That's very sad! This nation is nothing it once was. So sad to watch it slide down hill. The world continues to laugh at us. It is not the same nation I fought for.

 

[brian222]

No nation is what it once was.

 

[jeanmarie]

Oh no we haven't forgot, that's why we feel how we do. The baby boomers gen. Continued where there parents left off. Dont see that happening this time way to much violence directed at each other and not our enemies. The world continues to laugh at us as they watch this super power loose it's grip. Nothing Good WILL Come of all the hatred and division amongst the people.

 

[Quadman2]

Sad time in North America when this has to happen. It's almost like the proverbial tail wagging the dog.

What worries me is that; in some parts of the world... they are chuckling over this!

Q

 

[jeanmarie]

Our enimies are enjoying watching this show. Just hope no one does anything really stupid. Ok I'm done, need to bring in some firewood snowing like hell at 18 degrees and still have crops to get in. Going to be a long winter.

 

[bbqjoe]

This paragraph from the article sums it all up.

The decision also sent “an unfortunate message about students: That they are too fragile, too delicate, too distractible to deal with the ‘interruption’ of the salute. That they are too insular, too wrapped up in their own worlds to comprehend and accept this longstanding practice. That they must be protected from the reality that exists outside academia,”

 

[BroncoJimbo]

Sad but take heart, not all kids these days are snowflakes. My son is graduating from College next year and is in Army ROTC. He and his friends are the opposite of snowflakes and think this is all ludicrous...
It's his birthday today and it also happens to be Patton's.

 

[jeanmarie]

Snnowflake?????? Really?? Why Do We Need such labels to me its the same as the N word. Your adding to the division of our nation. Every one labels each other why? Aren't we suppose to be one people, AMERICANS. this labeling and name calling will only lead to worse. We better pull our head out of our ass and come together before it is to late if it isn't all ready.

 

[Quadman2]

Guys, settle down...or take to the message route (off line)!

No one wins on this. Polarization sets in.

Hackles are up.

Q

 

[Sandy G]

The United States of Wussies, Crybabies & assorted Bedwetters...Sorta glad The Greatest Generation is mostly gone now, so they don't have to see what a terrible Hot Mess we've become...

 

[jeanmarie]

Amen!!!

 

[bbqjoe]

Snnowflake?????? Really?? Why Do We Need such labels to me its the same as the N word. Your adding to the division of our nation. Every one labels each other why? Aren't we suppose to be one people, AMERICANS. this labeling and name calling will only lead to worse. We better pull our head out of our ass and come together before it is to late if it isn't all ready.

Uh oh.

 

[FONSguy]

Snnowflake?????? Really?? Why Do We Need such labels to me its the same as the N word. Your adding to the division of our nation. Every one labels each other why? Aren't we suppose to be one people, AMERICANS. this labeling and name calling will only lead to worse. We better pull our head out of our ass and come together before it is to late if it isn't all ready.

There was a time when we had free speech. Now self appointed word police have stuck their childish noses into everything. In the 70's and early 80's I could recite Richard Pryors material and NOBODY thought it was racist. Of course back then people were smart enough to understand "IN CONTEXT". Today its the continuously offended, who seem to know nothing.

 

[jeanmarie]

I know sometimes the truth hurts. But can you honestly say it's not the truth? It seems the ability to take things in context and the good use of common sense are a dying ability of alot of people. And I don't care we don't need the labeling it's the beginning of the end to the good life Americans have known .

 

[Sandy G]

C'mon, youse guys...Y'all KNOW better than this... I know you do.. This is, after all, supposed to be sort of a respectful day...

 

[grillebilly]

It would be wonderful if people could discuss polarizing issues but unfortunately we can't risk hurting someone's feelings these days. The cancelling of the 21 gun salute is a shame, but for a school that has been around for hundreds of years, a decade old tradition is not really a tradition.

 

[mfrench]

Its im-por-dant to pro-tect the stu-dents.

Sarge showed me a segment of the Ellen DeGeneris show last friday. In that segment, they had a rotary dial telephone, a phone book, and, a road map.
Tasks:
Open and then refold the map.
Look up, Golden Mufflers, in the phone book.
Call Golden Mufflers on the rotary dial phone.

Open and refold map: total fail. Took too long in segment; map yanked from task.
Look up Golden Mufflers in the phone book: Total fail to look for mufflers heading; Obsessed on finding car services, which had no heading, so attempt made to rearrange alphabet to see if they hid it elsewhere. Ellen finally told her to look up mufflers.
Rotary Dial Telephone: complete and utter confusion fail. She dialed in the number, after stressing her fingernail in the hole, and then picked up the handset to start talking, and, the dial tone kicked in. Total fail.

When ships were made of wood, men were made of steel.
I don't know where I heard it, but I love the saying.

 

[jeanmarie]

Sandy your right it is veterans day and I apologize for going off topic there a bit. But i am a veteran along with every male and a few females in our family that have served this nation. My hats off and I salute every vet here at AK and else where, thank you so much for your sacrifices you have made for our country. It's just that the state of our nation saddens and worries me greatly.