Posted on 05/14/2006 1:44:10 PM PDT by LouAvul
Holdenville, OK (AP) - A U-S Marine graduates from Holdenville High School, but isn't able to walk across the stage with his fellow graduates.
During last night's ceremony, Michael Lueking stood in the stands in his dress blues uniform. School officials had told Lueking he wouldn't be able to participate in the ceremony if he refused to wear the school's standard royal blue cap and gown.
Lueking finished high school a semester early so he could fulfill his longtime dream of joining the Marines. He graduated from the 13-week Marine boot camp on May 5th, in time to be home for his high school graduation.
Holdenville Superintendent Shellie Gammill says she couldn't bend the policy or else exceptions would have to be made for other students.
Now if he wanted to wear a satanic outfit the ACLU would be right there to protect his first amendment rights.
Apparently, someone at KTUL has decided that this item is newsworthy. There's nothing in the article that indicates that he initiated the coverage of it.
Yes, a slow day, and I think some people trying to find a flame war to join, or at the very least, some small town to bash.
Thanks...just as I thought, you can't explain why\where he was wrong.
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Let's see wear Marine Corps Dress Blues
or wear a cap and a gown....
a cap and a gown....
a cap...
a cap...
a cap...
and a gown...
a gown....
a gown....
a gown....
a gown....
Women wear gowns....
Kids wear caps....
Marines wear Blues....
What is bigger thrill for Mom and Pop seeing child graduate High school or seeing child become a Marine?
Anyone can graduate High School...
I wonder if the kid asked his commander if it was alright to wear his dress blues? Considering how military clothing regs change you can't assume he has the right without permission.
Would you approve of a Marine reservist selling cars at a dealership wearing the dress blues? After all if you say the dress uniform for civilian activities is dress blues then no Marine should have a suit.
Anything else is grandstanding.
Some of you may well be correct in that any marine could kick my butt,but that is not the sign of a good American.If you won't respect a difference of opinion then you have lost sight of the principles of this nation.
I fully realize the sacrifices being made by those who volunteer for military service,yet do not lose sight of how many other Americans go to work at dirty ,dangerous jobs every day for not a year or two but dozens.I speak of coal miners,mill workers,and other jobs in which many die and are maimed while trying to support their families.
Some fight and some make the tools needed for the fight.
I think this young man just made a mockery of "The Few, The Proud, The Marines". The very first thing he did after receiving his uniform was to show disrespect for authority. He should go a long way...
Depends on which side he put the tassel on.
He should have worn the cap and gown for the graduation ceremony and taken it off after, if he wanted.
I remember a time when any high school in these 50 states would have been damn proud to have had among their graduates a United States Marine fresh out of training, walking up in front of his family, his fellow students and his teachers and faculty to receive his diploma, and the principal would have shaken his hand and wished him Godspeed as he prepares to go off to war.
They should fall in with their classmates and wear the cap and gown, not expect special treatment.
Too bad the human filth that runs the school and the yellow-bellied pukes who would defend them sought to ignore this Marine's readiness to sacrifice his life to save their worthless blue-clad sacks of skin.
Once again the anti-american teachers union shows its true allegience...to the communists!
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