Posted on 08/30/2014 7:12:30 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA
When retired Cpl. Lewis Alston, who was wounded during the Vietnam War, drove by Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in Lancaster last year, he was shocked.
“I saw -- when I was coming down the street -- a student that ran in between the cars,” Alston, 63, of Lititz, Pennsylvania, told ABC News. “The traffic will not stop for the children at all.”
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So when the school year started on Monday, Alston, who is a chaplain for the Lancaster County Marine Corps League, headed to the school and saw that they didn’t have a crossing guard at one busy intersection. Because he had been at a funeral service that day, Alston was still wearing his marine uniform.
“I had my uniform on, and I thought, ‘Wouldn't it be a golden opportunity for the students to see a marine help them cross the street?’” the former truck driver said.
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Our schools had sixth graders who served as crossing guards in my small NJ town. The student safety patrol controlled the younger students, not the traffic. Only the adult crossing guard, who was at the busiest intersection, was allowed to stop traffic.
Yep, no marine necessary. As I am not of you or yours, it makes absolutely no sense to take pride in my childhood accomplishment. None.
Me too DeltaDawn. Of course we didn’t have kindergarten back then either.
Welcome home Corporal. Thank you for your Service and Sacrifices Marine.
I said he was a fine man - read my post correctly, please.
And I disagree. Most people stop for kids - most people do not want to end up in prison for killing children. If you think we have reckless drivers in this country, check out Sicily - Palermo, in particular. We look like a nation of old ladies by comparison.
Again, there should not be any crossing guards for high school or college students. Kids need to grow up.
I’m betting more than 2 can cross there (tudents)
I hear you about texting while driving. In my small Oregon town I see teens texting while riding their bikes across busy streets. They only look up once or twice.
What a tupid thing to say.
What did he say? His post was completely garbled!
I was being sarcastic.
To quote you accurately, “I’m sure this man is a fine person”. Not quite the ringing endorsement is it?
And who said anything about crossing guards for high school students?
Having a tough morning, are you?
Oh, stop it. You apparently don’t know how to read or your comprehension level is pretty low.
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LOL!
I was a tudent in ighchool, and in ollege. :)
In fact, I consider myself a tudent in ife in eneral!
Yea. I know that some of you evidently walked to school 20 miles back and forth to school, all uphill each way, in driving snow storms, during floods, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions and in the bitter cold while barefoot and wearing only a ratty sweater and carrying 10 pounds worth of books along a sack of coal in order to heat your one room school house and had to fight off grizzly bears and rattle snakes and or having to dodge the speeding horse drawn stage coaches along the way and lived to tell about it. Well good for you!
Oh, and I admitted that when I cut and pasted, I made an error in posting the title. And I noted that in post #3. So you can lay off the jokes as it has nothing to do with the substance of what I posted.
My point in posting this; a point that is evidently lost on many of you, is that this Marine Corps veteran and a find upstanding citizen, saw a need; a dangerous heavily trafficked intersection where drivers were not paying attention to kids crossing the street even when they were trying to cross with the traffic light, because the school district cut funding for crossing guards that used to be stationed at that intersection, but that he, rather than just whining and complaining about it or crying for more tax dollars to be spent or for more government intervention and without, I should mention, never once playing the “racism card”; simply took it upon himself to just do something about it and on his own time. And while also perhaps teaching those kids what it is to be a Marine.
And FWIW, it makes absolutely no wit of difference to me the color of Lewis Alston’s skin, his race as I would applaud him for his actions no matter the color of his skin, but I just thought that with all the things going on in places like Ferguson, the rioting and looting, the black thug¸ rap, knock out game culture, etc., it was just nice to see a fine upstanding citizen who just happened to be a Black man but also a religious man and a proud Marine Corps veteran who takes the time to be a Chaplain and someone who takes the time to be an honor guard for the funerals of his fellow Marine Corpsmen, a man proud to wear his Marine uniform who also takes the time to help out his community without asking for anything in return.
I would be happy and am happy to have Lewis Alston as my “neighbor”. We need more men like him no matter their race. YMMV and if you don’t see that, I feel sorry for you.
He’s black? All I saw was Marine.
That’s all I saw too, at least at first and I agree that is all any of us should see, just a Marine. But I was only trying to point out that not all Blacks are criminals, thugs, rioters, looters. It is very sad that this has to be pointed out from time to time.
How did you know I walked through a volcano to get to school?
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