Michael Avery, a professor at Suffolk University Law School Westboro Light

After Westboro hate group started to protest at selected military funerals, I didn't think it was possible to feel this much disgust for another person. Michael Avery just turned my stomach to the point where getting up this morning filled me with regret. This was the worst email I've read in a long time.

A friend sent me the link to this story. It came in a couple of days ago but I've just been too busy to read it. Much like Avery must have been too busy trying to prove he doesn't have a clue how this nation became to be on the backs of men and yes, women, willing to lay down their lives for it. He doesn't care that the men and woman serving overseas are not there because they want to be there but are serving because they think this nation is worth it and so are the others they serve with.

They don't care what political party one of the members of their unit belong to when a bomb blows them up. They grieve for one of their own. Their lives offer many examples of what the rest of us forgot. That while war may be political, they are not. Politicians decide when they fight and where they fight but in the end, no matter where it is or what generation was sent, they fight for each other.

In all the years I've been working with them I have never once heard one of them say that killing anyone was worth their own life but they readily say they would die for one of their buddies.

This man Avery has no clue what they are like but he decided it was "shameful" to ask for donations to send them care packages?

If he wants to be a greedy SOB and not make a donation, ok, fine, that's all he needed to say. He decided to send out a rant of an email saying "who have gone overseas to kill other human beings" as if they all got together ten years ago and decided to pick on Afghan civilians. Does he think that they had so much fun doing it they decided to head to Iraq to kill them too?

Avery must not know much at all or care about what type of person made this nation in the first place but for a constitutional law professor to say something so stupid I feel sorry for the parents of his students paying a lot of money for him to "teach" their kids. Maybe he's trying to get the same kind of publicity Westboro hate group has gotten off hating the troops while they are lacking publicity on the simple fact the troops are willing to die for his right to hate them.

Tomorrow I'm filming families putting together care packages for their family members in Afghanistan and I doubt I'll find a single family member telling me they are having a good time killing others. This man is as shameful as they come!

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Massachusetts Law Professor Calls Care Packages for U.S. Troops 'Shameful'
Published November 14, 2011
FoxNews.com

Michael Avery, a professor at Suffolk University Law School, reportedly sent an email to colleagues saying it is "shameful" to send care packages to U.S. troops.

A Massachusetts law professor has created a campus firestorm with an email to colleagues that declares it would be "shameful" to send care packages to U.S. troops "who have gone overseas to kill other human beings."

Michael Avery, a professor at Suffolk University Law School, sent a five-paragraph email to colleagues in response to a school-wide appeal for care packages for deployed soldiers, Fox affiliate WFXT-TV reports.

"I think it is shameful that it is perceived as legitimate to solicit in an academic institution for support for men and women who have gone overseas to kill other human beings," Avery wrote.

The professor, who specializes in constitutional law, wrote the email last week in response to a university drive to collect items for U.S. troops, like sunblock and sanitary products. He also wrote that sympathy for American troops in harm's way is "not particularly rational in today's world."

Paul Spera, past commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, blasted Avery's remarks on Monday, calling the professor's argument "despicable."

"The shameful thing is that he’s teaching our young people," Spera told FoxNews.com.

"One of the things that we've learned from Vietnam is to separate the warriors from the war. You can be opposed to the war -- you can disagree with the tactics and the political decision involved -- but the individuals on the battle field are there protecting us," said Spera, an Army veteran who served in Vietnam.
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