DayAg! said:
Just looking at some of the responses you can tell it still just goes right over their head. And like I said, it has nothing to do with having or not having thick skin. It has to do with the times that it happened. And I repeat, unless you lived in that time you'll never understand it and continue to have your tainted world view of how you think things should be politically correct. Millennial's and New Army, you can spot em a mile off just by the way they have been brainwashed by todays society and their half baked responses to something they cant fully comprehend.
Justice was served by the standards of that time. And no one thought that much about it. But see, today everyone would be in an uproar. Would the same thing being done today be any different than when it was done then. No. But what has changed is the idiocy of our societies mindset when it comes to understanding what's truly right or wrong. They can swallow camels , but they choke on gnats. It's twisted from what's truly important and what's not. But you guys just keep toeing the company line. Hopefully one day you'll wake up and finally start to smell the roses.
I have a slightly different take on it.
Cutting down Rice's Victory Tree
was a big news story and a big embarrassment for A&M at the time. I was attending A&M then, and I remember it well. We Ags received a lot of criticism for it for years afterward, too.
However, Rice's band instigated it. That is the part that the critics always omit.
I was at the game. What the Rice band did was unconscionable.
Here's why.
For many thousands of older Ags from the WW2 generation, the semi-annual trip to watch A&M play Rice in Houston was a trip they and their spouses never missed. It was a big social weekend where for decades many Aggies of that generation met up in Houston to socialize with old A&M acquaintances.
Many older Ags attending that game served during WW2. And every Ag and Aggie spouse of that generation had lost friends, brothers, fathers, and/or uncles in WW2.
My two uncles were WW2 vets; both were at the game with their wives. They thought it was very poor taste what the Rice band did. But they were grown men in their 50's, successful professionals, and had cool heads. They were disgusted and shocked, but not angry.
It was us young Ags at the game who were angry. Angry because the older men and women of that WW2 generation who we held such respect for were being ridiculed and insulted in such a disgusting and totally uncalled-for way.
To call someone in America's WW2 generation a Nazi is one of the vilest, lowest insults possible.
Rice is lucky their p.o.s. band didn't receive an old-fashioned butt-kicking that day.
So too bad about the tree. It burned damn good, I hear.