Just remember, these people will be in charge of defending us and making decisions to protect our way of life some day.

Our ancestors in times of war may have been frightened that we would lose our battles for freedom, but I doubt they ever thought that someday we would go crawling on our knees to our enemies without a shot being fired, apologizing to them for our virtues, our successes, and our values.

This is as though a rapist was ravaging Berkeley campus and killing girls, and none of the memorials and remembrances mentioned in any way the crime of rape, or the monster preying on the school.

I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that I will be thoroughly damned if one of my kids is going to attend a "typical" university. I might just as well toss them into a Maoist reeducation camp or a Nazi Youth Group. I don't have any better ideas yet, but I'm thinking.

Jessica Quindel