Bush Rebukes Universities On ROTC Ban
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WASHINGTON — President Bush is delivering a stern rebuke to universities that do not offer military officer training programs on campus, telling a group of newly commissioned officers at the White House that while their schools “may not honor your military service, the United States of America does.”
Mr. Bush yesterday presided over a ceremony honoring 58 graduates of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps who now become officers in the four branches of the armed forces. While recognizing the cadets’ sacrifice and service to the nation, the president reserved his strongest remarks for some of the country’s elite universities, including Columbia and New York universities, which do not offer the ROTC program because of their long-standing opposition to the government’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military.
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