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The Student Senate of the UW has passed the Resolution to honor MOH winners, including Col Pappy Boyington of Baa Baa Black Sheep fame in a 60-14-13 roll call vote. (correction, 61-14-13, the Seattle PI is reporting-LSU)

More on this as it comes.

Barring interference by the Board of Directors, this should be a done deal.

Stay tuned for fund raising information.

Let’s not let a lack of money do what the liberals at the UW tried to do, and that is to deny some brave men their due.

Previous Boyington posts:

http://leaningstraightup.com/category/boyington/

UPDATE

The Seattle PI has more on the story:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/265561_uwmemorial05.html

After a sometimes-heated debate and an unusual roll call vote, the University of Washington student government Tuesday night backed the creation of a campus memorial to honor former students who have received the Medal of Honor.

The vote followed an earlier attempt by a UW student to create a memorial in recognition of Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, a pilot with the Flying Tigers and later the Marines in World War II.

The UW student government rejected the proposal for a Boyington memorial by one vote at a February meeting. News of the decision — and comments some students made that questioned if the university should honor a Marine who killed people, or a rich white man — became public, and hundreds of people wrote the university and undergraduates, many expressing outrage at the students.

Several students brought up that public scrutiny during their nearly hourlong debate and vote, which was recorded by a national television news crew.

UW junior Deidre Lockman said the meaning of the memorial had been "hijacked" by people for political purposes, noting the "horrible" treatment some students received from the public after they voted against the Boyington memorial. She feared that some students might be intimidated by the public reaction.

Welcome to Politics…that’s exactly what happens in Washington DC.

Now you kids see how the adults play the game…

"The true intention of this resolution will not be achieved," she said.

Others, such as sophomore Cailin Magruder, thought the Medal of Honor recipients should be recognized.

"I think these men left a legacy of great character that we can all cling to," she said.

Senior Andrew Everett, who brought forth the idea to honor the Medal of Honor recipients, said the issue had become bigger than he had intended. He encouraged his peers to vote based on their conscience.

"Do what you think is right, please," he said.

Though most of the students’ votes are typically done by voice or placard, students were asked to support or oppose the memorial individually during a roll call vote — a move that prompted at least one student to storm out of the meeting room before the vote.

Rumor says it was one of the two young ladies that made the comments in the first resolution vote who walked out, but I have no confirmation of this yet..

Sixty-one students voted in favor of the memorial, 14 voted against it and 13 abstained. The students’ support is only a recommendation. University officials must still approve it.

The UW’s Medal of Honor memorial would honor five former UW students: Boyington, Deming Bronson, Robert Galer, Robert Leisy and William Nakamura.

The controversy surrounding the failed Boyington memorial eventually led the UW to create a scholarship fund in Boyington’s name and prompted some student leaders to introduce new legislation both in support of and in opposition to the military. It even spurred the state Senate to pass a resolution honoring Boyington.

Duncan Bronson, who said he was Deming Bronson’s nephew, said in an interview last week that he hoped the students voted to support the creation of a memorial. Deming Bronson served in World War I and helped capture enemy prisoners despite being wounded.

"Nobody likes war, and even those who fight in wars don’t like wars," said Duncan Bronson, a former Marine who lives in Winthrop. "People volunteer or they’re drafted, but they serve, and 99.9 percent of them serve without reservation, and the Medal of Honor represents the accomplishments to the highest standard of those who served in the military, most of whom sacrificed their lives. …"

Also posted at Sister Toldjah

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