Veterans’ rally held in Omaha
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— Krause drew applause from the
gathered veterans when he said the
United"States had erred in sending
troops to Haiti, Bosnia and Somalia. ”
*We sent American soldiers to
Haiti to depose one dictator and set
up another,” Krause said,
f ‘^That’s not what the U.S. military
is for. ... The United States should
not send troops where our national
security is not threatened.”
1 Hagel left no question that he
believed the military was the tool
allowing America to promote stabili
ty worldwide.
,“We have the potential to do
more good for more people than ever
before,” he said, adding that a strong
military was^the reason.
Hagel commended the crowd of
veterans for their service and said the
organizations they represented, the
VFW and American Legion, would
play a more important role in the next
century.
He said the organizations would
remind a United States with a shrink
ing number of veterans what patrio
tism and service was about
" “It was not by accident that those
of us who served in every generation
learned of our duty,” Hagel said.
Hagel, himself a Vietnam veter
an, spoke of learning about his duty
when his father carefully laid out a
worn uniform every Veterans Day.
Hagel said his son’s attitude demon
strated how the values of patriotism
and service were passed from gener
ation to generation.
“I did not ask my 7-year-old son,
Ziller, to accompany me today,”
Hagel said. “He asked me. Ever since
he has been old enough ... he knows
there will be a responsibility passed
on to him.”
Hagel said that with the appropri
ate training “7-year-old boys and
girls will know” the importance of
fighting for freedom.
The younger Hagel, dressed in a
blue suit and tie nearly identical to
his father’s and listening attentively
from his front-row seat, beamed at
his father’s praise.
Omaha Mayor Hal Daub set the
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ROTC members honor
veterans with ceremony
■ In addition to the flag
retreat, Honor Guard
visits school children.
By Becky Jacobsen
Staff writer
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ROTC members honored war veter
ans Thursday with a flag retreat at
the Military and Naval Science
Building.
“It is a basic military tradition,”
said Sam Schneider, public affairs
officer for the Air Force ROTC.
“Active Air Force bases should do it
every day.”
The flag ceremony began with a
wing commander calling the corps
to attention.
Four members of the corps low
ered the flag while “The Star
Spangled Banner” was performed,
and the rest of the company stood at
attention.
Two men then held the flag
while the other two folded it.
The flag was folded into a trian
gle formation, a fold that is learned
in the service.
The flag was then presented to
the wing commander.
“The flag-lowering is done to
signify the end of a working day,” y^
said Honor Guard Commander
John Larson.
“As the men march away hold
ing the flag, ‘Taps’ is played. It was
played this morning at 11:11, which
was a national moment of silence to
honor the veterans.”
The number 11 signifies Nov.
11, 1918, the day the armistice
ended World War I.
ROTC also did other activities
to honor Veterans Day.
The Honor Guard went to an
area elementary school and per
formed a flag-raising ceremony.
They then went into a fourth
grade classroom and answered
questions for the young students,
Larson said.
A booth was also set up in the
Nebraska Union, where corps
members handed out red, white and
blue ribbons.
On Thursday, from 11 a.m. to 3
p.m., a cadet was posted outside of
the Military and Naval Science
Building, guarding the colors.
The day’s events ended with the
flag retreat Thursday evening.
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It was not by accident that those of us who
served in every generation learned of our
duty/'
Sen. Chuck Hagel
tone for the event, which included
several uniformed color guards of
veterans, active service personnel
and ROTC cadets.
Daub said the event’s favorable
weather, sunny and crisp, was a sign
of God’s favor.
“I do believe the Lord is smiling
down on Omaha,” Daub said, “is
smiling down on this promontory,
this peaceful high place where we
have gathered to honor those who
have lived and died in the service of
this country.”
Police question UNL crime ranking
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Surrounding community.
The White House in Washington,
D.C., while itself very protected
against crime, is in a relatively dan
gerous neighborhood, Idsvoog said.
Lincoln Police Chief Tom
Casady said the study’s comparison
of schools in different cities with dif
ferent crime statistics was like com
paring apples and oranges.
“I just think it’s kind of a mistake
to draw too much from a compari
son,” Casady said.
Trying to make a statistical dis
tinction between students and other
residents in a community was also a
problem, Casady said, because crime
affects all parts of a community.
“You may not have a whole lot of
thefts on campus, but students are
just as likely to get their car broken
into in an apartment lot off campus,”
Casady said.
University Police Sgt; Mylo
Bushing said the study wad flawed
because it was effectively a compari
son of neighborhoods with colleges,
not the colleges themselves.
“It’s not so much looking at the
campus itself, but at that neighbor
hood around it,” Bushing said.
Four of the top five most danger
ous schools in the nation are in
Atlanta, according to the study. -t
Atlanta’s Morse Brown College
is the nation’s most dangerous
school, followed by LeMoyne-Owen
College in Memphis, Tenn.
APBnews.com includes letters
received from colleges at both ends
of the crime-risk spectrum comment
ing on the study.
Several colleges considered the
most dangerous criticized the study
as providing the wrong picture of
their communities.
“This analysis ... appears to have
been conducted in a statistical vacu
um, devoid of pertinent information
needed to make an accurate assess
ment of the safety of these campus
es,” wrote Christopher Cason, public
relations director at Spellman
College, ranked as the nation’s third
most dangerous school.
Math Day benefits add up for students
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seven-hour drive to Lincoln.
“We have a lot of talented math
students, and this is a good way to
put Morrill on the map,” Patterson
said.
Students also had the chance to
compete in the Math Bowl, which
pitted teams against each other in an
intense 15-problem game.
The tournament was double
elimination, and trophies were
awarded to the top two teams in
each of the four classes, Mueller
said.
■r Morrill High’s trip across state
was worthwhile, as it took first place
in the Class C division.
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We hope that Math Day generated interest and
recruits the best students in Nebraska to start
their education at UNL.”
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Lori Mueller
UNL administrative technician for department of mathematics and statistics
Other Math Bowl victors include
Elkhotn, Plattsmouth and Mead high
schools.
Rod Henkel, UNL alumni and
Yutan High School teacher, brought
11 students to the competition.
Math Dajrira good opportunity
for children to interact with the top
math students in Nebraska, Henkel
said.
He said another perk of Math
Day is the chance for students to
explore the campus and get a taste of
college life.
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A slide-illustrated lecture by
Robert A. Warren
How do Holocaust survivors, and others, remember the terrible events^ the 1940’s?
Does a person’s memory recollect or reconstruct events?
Do *inanufactured” memorials recreate memory or distort it?
In what ways can physical memorials truly evoke that which they purport to memorialize?
Robert Warren has lectured and written widely
about the reminiscences of Holocaust survivors,
and about Holocaust memorials. A regular C
participant in the Annual Scholar’s Conference
on the Holocaust and the Churches, he is
compiling an exhaustive chronology of the
Holocaust. Formerly he was a successful trial
lawyer in New York.