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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
While I don't agree with the severity of the charge, I can hardly be supportive of someone's goal to join the military if they - heat of the moment or not - see fit to burn another nation's flag.
Oh, I have no illusions it's not the miscreant, xenophobic haters who are attracted to military service, but I have no qualms about eliminating their eligibility - one a a time, if necessary.
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to that. It sounds like all the students involved were acting like idiots. I suspect they are being more severe with him because he was JROTC. They most likely want to send the message that he isn't representative of the group. Though, when I was in high school, JROTC was populated with so many a-holes that none of this surprised me at all.
A word about Apache Junction: I went to school very near there and lived there up until last year (though I'm loathe to admit that!). It's one of the top five? meth producers in the nation. It's a very rough town. If it's anything like where I went to school (15 miles away), racial tensions run pretty high. I'm not at all surprised that they are taking this so seriously.