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SOLDIER STUNNED BY LETTER KIDS' RANTS
New York Post ^
| 2-21-2005
| David Andreatta
Posted on 02/21/2005 3:28:29 AM PST by jocon307
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To: HateBill
My cousins have lived in Park Slope for about 30 years--a beautiful brownstone--yes--it's very yuppie
To: jocon307
Interesting. I just watched "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" over the weekend. It fits.
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posted on
02/21/2005 6:23:22 AM PST
by
zook
Comment #103 Removed by Moderator
To: kennedy6979
Good point. The pre-combat and combat ops only lasted a total of about eight months.
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posted on
02/21/2005 6:28:12 AM PST
by
Coop
(In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
To: NonValueAdded
The VRWC is EVERYWHERE.... (:0
105
posted on
02/21/2005 6:40:06 AM PST
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: stockpirate
We will welcome you here. One requirement. You have to swear you allegience to the Sooners.
John
Bartlesville, OK
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posted on
02/21/2005 6:45:52 AM PST
by
jbstrick
(This tagline has passed the "Global Test")
To: mewzilla
Spineless Lib's like to throw grenades then and run & hide...
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posted on
02/21/2005 6:47:09 AM PST
by
Barney59
(Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!)
To: HateBill
Yeah, well guess what? There is a mad dash from Park Slope NY to my little home town of Montclair NJ. They are buying up the McMansions at a clip of at least a half a million dollars each. It is literally destroying a once beautiful, peaceful town in the suburbs of NJ 30 miles from NYC.
You have hit the description of them right on the old noggin!
To: Barney59
Well, I hope this gets a lot more coverage. To use kids to go after our service personnel...That is so despicable on so many levels...
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posted on
02/21/2005 6:48:44 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
To: HateBill
This school is on the fringe of Park Slope, in an area with a sizable Muslim population. It is a few blocks from a mosque identified after 9/11 as a source of terrorist funding as well as bookstores carrying Islamo-terrorist propaganda. Also, the local Carvel store owner was charged with money laundering for terrorist organizations.
Despite the Board of Ed description, it isn't considered first rate academically. Some Park Slope kids take the subway to schools in Manhattan rather than attend.
As for Park Slope generally, it is Loony Left country. But losing 12 firefighters -- the entire squad of the local fire house -- on 9/11 definitely sobered up a lot of people.
I deplore the teacher's judgment in sending these letters and it confirms my gloomy view of NYC social studies teachers. Still, picketing won't teach these kids the lessons they need to learn. A few soldiers coming to the school as speakers would be a great idea, though. Anything to penetrate the bubble and expose the students to a point of view they rarely if ever hear.
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posted on
02/21/2005 6:49:38 AM PST
by
joylyn
To: Warrior_Queen
the teacher, who collected the letters, should have taken out the ones that are offensive. He probably went through them and took out the ones that were patriotic and supportive.
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posted on
02/21/2005 6:51:48 AM PST
by
Alouette
(Learned Mother of Zion)
To: mewzilla
I hope RUSH or the other talkies make a note of this on today's shows... would be interesting to see how the bulk of our nation reacts to this lowest of the low...
I can just hear SAVAGE going berserk!
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posted on
02/21/2005 6:53:18 AM PST
by
Barney59
(Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!)
To: jocon307
Just another example of our school tax dollars being spent wisely. Schools need more money to do this more often.
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posted on
02/21/2005 6:58:25 AM PST
by
Piquaboy
(22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
To: stockpirate
That school teacher, and his darling little students need to meet reality.
Not that they would listen to soldiers who've been to Iraq, it's somewhat obvious that the class already has their minds made up.
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posted on
02/21/2005 7:05:37 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(It is not a ZOT, it is aggressive electro-dermal exfoliation! Yeeeeeeeeeeeagh!)
To: mewzilla
NJ, not NY, is what the article stated ... your link is to a school in Brooklyn
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posted on
02/21/2005 7:07:08 AM PST
by
AgThorn
(Bush is my president, but he needs to quit with the "Amnesty" and protect our borders.)
To: mewzilla
My misread ... the SOLDIER was from NJ ... [never mind! ;-)]
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posted on
02/21/2005 7:08:08 AM PST
by
AgThorn
(Bush is my president, but he needs to quit with the "Amnesty" and protect our borders.)
To: AgThorn
No prob :) It's been that kinda morning! :)
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posted on
02/21/2005 7:10:25 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
To: jocon307
Not only is it outrageous these demoralizing letters were sent to our troops, but at least some of these middle school children appear to be illiterate.
To: jocon307
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posted on
02/21/2005 7:16:40 AM PST
by
kenth
(I love the smell of burning troll in the morning.)
To: jocon307
Most of the 21 letters Jacobs provided to The Post mentioned some support for the armed forces, if not the Iraq war, and thanked him for his service. But nine of the students made clear their distaste for the president or the war.
...the school principal, Xavier Costello, responded with a statement:
"While we would never censor anything that our children write, we sincerely apologize for forwarding letters that were in any way inappropriate to Pfc. Jacobs. This assignment was not intended to be insensitive, but to be supportive of the men and women in service to our nation." the two paragraphs above showing that the offending letters were the minority, together with the principles comment that they would "never censor" (which is proper), shows that they the 'error' was probably in not giving proper instruction to the students in the first place. Further, some 'screening' could be done as well, encouraging the students to simply not write if they have anything negative on thier mind.
Sad event .. but not sure if the teacher is 'guilty' of anything other than bad planning and follow-through on what should have been a positive experience for both students and soldiers.
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posted on
02/21/2005 7:17:03 AM PST
by
AgThorn
(Bush is my president, but he needs to quit with the "Amnesty" and protect our borders.)
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