Student walkout protests war (Hundred exit classes at Millersville University)

[Omaha Steve]

http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/218590

Published: Mar 21, 2008

U.S. Navy veteran Ryan Barrick is tired of the war in Iraq, and he wants people to know it.

Barrick joined about 100 students at Millersville University Thursday for an anti-Iraq War rally/walkout, where he spoke of his disgust over the conflict.

"It's over; it's done," Barrick, of Carlisle, said. "It has to come to an end. This has been five years of madness."

Barrick, who joined the Navy shortly after graduating high school in 2001, has completed two tours in the Mideast. Now, as a Navy reservist, he is facing a third deployment this spring.


A field on the Millersville University campus is filled Thursday with Popsicle sticks, one for every soldier killed in the war in Iraq.
Jeff Ruppenthal / Lancaster Newspapers

Barrick said his feelings since joining the military have changed.

"I love my country very much," he said. "I am proud to serve the Navy, but enough is enough. Our Armed Forces can't sustain themselves."

The protest was organized by MU's Students for a Democratic Society and other campus groups to mark the fifth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq.

Students who participated in the walkout left class about 11 a.m. and walked to the campus quad across from the Student Memorial Center, where students, professors, veterans and others spoke in protest of the war.

FULL story at link.

[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick & R

[fascisthunter]

2. Good! (nt)

[femmocrat]

3. K & R

Proud to be #5.

[cbayer]

4. It's about damn time.

People are planning to protest the convention, but haven't done anything about the war?
Good for these students. I only wish it represented a trend.