This happens quite frequently. Too bad the young Marine sought to have an exception to the rules of his school.
The guy is undoubtedly heading to war, and she can't make an exception in his case????!!!!?!?!?!?!?
This is ridiculously asinine...
I understand what she is saying here though. Once she starts making exceptions then everyone will have the right to start asking.
Should just be a school rule that military is the only exception and be done with it.
As a Marine, Pvt Lueking is familiar with the concept of Uniform of the Day. Well the Uniform of the Day in this case was royal blue cap and gown.
Words fail me.
He was graduating from high school, not from a Marine training program. He should follow the rules for appropriate dress for the occasion.
This is a story about a young man whose pride in being a Marine exceeds his pride at having graduated high school, and whose school wisely won't make an exception just for him.
I respect the position of both sides in this case. Sometimes you have to choose between alternatives, and so don't get everything you would have liked. That's life.
If he wanted to walk, he should have worn the cap and gown.
Sure. I mean, next year some kid might want to come decked out as a pimp. And in the worldview endorsed by public schools, no distinction can be made between one and the other . . . just alternate life-paths for the graduates to choose.
The choice was his to make. He chose to sit on the sideline in order to wear his uniform, I respect him for that.
At first glance, this might seem outrageous. How dare the school require this young Marine to wear a cap and gown like the rest of the students?
But then, if you think about it, this is not a Marine function, and Marines are not required to wear their dress blues to civilian functions.
I can see no reason this youngster could not doff his dress uniform jacket, wear the cap and gown over the rest of his uniform for the ceremony, then put on the jacket after the ceremony was over.
Marines also wear civilian clothing when not on duty. I thin there's just a bit of grandstanding going on here.
I would support "his decision" either way.
I would support him if he chose to wear cap and gown. I support him for chosing to "stand down" from graduation and to "stand tall" as a Marine.
He is evidently more of a Marine than a high school graduate.
betcha when they announced this kids name he got the loudest ovation...
The difference is, once you graduate from boot camp and have become a Marine, your dress uniform is Dress Blues A... not caps, gowns, or white tails and top hats. If the lefties/draft-dodgers/etc. that run our schools today won't recognize that our service men and women have joined - and proved themselves - in a significantly more important organization than high school, then we really have dropped a large portion of the guts and integrity that used to be our hallmark.
Those of you with some knowledge of our history will remember that the service uniform was the mode of dress for graduations and other ceremonies, going back almost to the beginning of our nation. It's only since we lost our schools to the leftist agenda that wearing a service dress uniform to graduation became a punishable offense.
I'm proud of the Marine that chose his uniform and his new identity over conforming to a ridiculous rule.
The Marine did right to wear his blues IMHO.
As a former Army officer who signed up for ROTC during Viet Nam (it was over before I was commissioned, this kid is wrong.
Liberals cannot hide their disdain for the military no matter how hard they try.