Their patriotism is whole hearted: 

Since the earliest days of this administration, Young America’s Foundation has been reaching out to encourage strict enforcement of the Solomon amendment, in order to improve opportunities for students to serve their country and to force an accounting of institutions hostile to our military.

 The Solomon amendment is the reason why schools and universities throughout the nation are forced to violate their non-discrimination policies at job fairs by allowing branches of the military to participate. Blockading military tables at job fairs has nothing to do with blocking opportunities for students to serve. It is about ending discriminatory 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policies, it is about changing a system that deceives young people into going to war, and it is about protesting an unfair and illegal war.

I was there, with hundreds of 'Students Against War', marching on the Army's table at the UCSC Job Fair two years ago. After a couple of hours of chanting, flyering and having anti-war conversations, the military finally left. The frustrated university police tried to retaliate by arresting one of our Legal Observers, but had to eventually release him faced with the absurdity of their claims (apparently they confused his camera with a rock he was supposedly about to throw).

This exciting and empowering protest even made it on the O'Reilly Factor and Michelle Maulkin published the names, email addresses and phone numbers of our media contacts on her blog. Our comrades were soon swarmed with conservative messages of hate including plenty death threats, racist, sexist and xenophobic name calling. Michelle proudly displayed a picture of a bomb being to be dropped in Afghanistan with the names of our media contacts written on it. All of this hate was the response we got from the conservative right to our non-violent, peaceful demonstration. Hate seems all that conservative pundits are able to promote these days. 

In addition to all the hateful media, UCSC's federal funding was also threatened by a ridiculous lawsuit filed by the Young America's Foundation. As expected, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the lawsuit because "the underlying facts of the case are not seriously in dispute". YAF, get serious and stop blindly following your hateful pundits. If you really want to honor the troops, why don't you attack the military's discriminatory policies, or make sure that every soldier will have access to health care and decent schooling upon their return, or that they won't be stuck being continuously redeployed for a criminal war?