The modern American college campus is a curious place for servicemen today. It is a place where eighteen-year-old students who have decided to serve their nation sometimes feel the mild sting of casual disdain and episodic examples of sophomoric persecution. Before long, this experience will be common for a third generation of American servicemen and women. It is not, therefore, remarkable that at this point, some forty years after anti-military protests first started gaining traction on campuses across the country, those who are occasionally the subjects of these anti-military sentiments are themselves somewhat put out.1What these servicemen and women often believe they are seeing, even when it is not intended as such, is a criticism of them personally. The generic, vaguely anti-military experience many students have in college is often merely a reflection of the general sentiments of
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