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Parents protest military statue
The Denver Post ^

Posted on 04/05/2007 10:03:26 AM PDT by Gunut

A group of Littleton parents is opposing the design and location of a memorial to a fallen local Navy SEAL, Danny Dietz, who died in combat in Afghanistan two years ago.

They say the statue, depicting Dietz clutching an automatic rifle, glorifies violence. In Berry Park, it would be within blocks of three schools and two playgrounds.

"I don't think young children should be exposed to that in that way - unsupervised by their parents or any adults," said Emily Cassidy, one of the mothers.

(Excerpt) Read more at denverpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: banglist; colorado; littleton; marines; moonbats; usmc
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To: lastchance

That would be sooo cool if the chief of police really did write a letter like that. Of course, most police chiefs are anti-gun, but many of the officers on the street are still on our side. Maybe one of them could write the letter.


81 posted on 04/05/2007 1:40:36 PM PDT by conserveababe ("I hope she wins the next elections." - Khaled al-Batch, Islamic Jihad terrorist, on Nancy Pelosi)
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To: Beelzebubba
Hey.
That's in Massachusetts.
WHERE’S THE TRIGGER LOCK?
82 posted on 04/05/2007 1:54:57 PM PDT by SWO
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To: stm
Freedoms that pathetic spineless libtards like these people take for granted every single day of their lives and have never so much as lifted a finger to help preserve.

They'll be the first to throw rocks at your home, car, or business to 'tell' you that freedom comes from the ACLU, not the barrel of a gun.

83 posted on 04/05/2007 6:05:53 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: Gunut; Disambiguator; pabianice; muawiyah; Just A Nobody; Billthedrill; freema; mdittmar; ...

SCHOOL DESKS

Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she took all of the desks out of the classroom.

The kids came into first period, they walked in, there were no desks.

They obviously looked around and said, “Ms. Cothren, where’s our desk?” And she said, “You can’t have a desk until you tell me how you earn them.”

They thought, “Well, maybe it’s our grades.”

“No,” she said.

“Maybe it’s our behavior.”

And she told them, “No, it’s not even your behavior.”

And so they came and went in the first period, still no desks in the classroom. Second period, same thing, third period. By early afternoon television news crews had gathered in Ms. Cothren’s class to find out about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of the classroom. The last period of the day, Martha Cothren gathered her class. They were at this time sitting on the floor around the sides of the room. And she says, “Throughout the day no one has really understood how you earn the desks that sit in this classroom ordinarily.” She said, “Now I’m going to tell you.”

Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it, and as she did 27 U.S. veterans, wearing their uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. And they placed those school desks in rows, and then they stood along the wall. And by the time they had finished placing those desks, those kids for the first time I think perhaps in their lives understood how they earned those desks.

Martha said, “You don’t have to earn those desks. These guys did it for you. They put them out there for you, but it’s up to you to sit here responsibly to learn, to be good students and good citizens, because they paid a price for you to have that desk, and don’t ever forget it.”


(unverified story received by email just yesterday)


84 posted on 04/05/2007 6:19:04 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: Beelzebubba
Minuteman Statue, Battle Green Square, Lexington, Massachusetts

OMG! That’s one-a-’m border vigilantes, what hates immigrants! I’m tellin’ Mommy!

Moderator! RACIST HATE SPEECH! HALP; MODERATOR! < / LittletonLib mode >

85 posted on 04/05/2007 6:19:17 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

If that teacher had done that in Massachusetts she’d be guilty of a hate crime.


86 posted on 04/05/2007 6:21:54 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: swatbuznik

They are everywhere. Two weeks after my son’s death I was asked to appear at a city council meeting in my home town. They were asking permission to put up a memorial to my son, and the only other soldier lost in our town in this war. It has been almost two years, despite the pain of going to that meeting with the cameras following. Now the council thinks it would be unfair to Veterans of other wars to memorialize those lost in this one. Go figure. I live five miles from Vandenberg, where there have been no casualties. Our city has memorials to WWI,WWII, and VietNam. Nothing will be built for ours. Why? Perhaps it is because there never really was a “Global War on Terror.” I do praise Hurlburt Field and the other cities that have remembered my son, just not the city he grew up in.

Proud mom of Capt.Derek Argel, USAF Combat Control, KIA Memorial Day, Diyala Iraq In Service to God and Country


87 posted on 04/05/2007 6:29:30 PM PDT by debbieargel ("It is above you. To serve God and Country is a privilege and not a right." (Derek Argel ))
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To: Gunut

Somebody slap these idiots.


88 posted on 04/06/2007 8:17:16 AM PDT by Firefigher NC
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To: muawiyah
Just about every town in the South has some variation on this:

Whole generations of kids in the South have grown up warped, twisted, wicked and depraved, because they saw a statue of a soldier with a rifle.

NOT!

89 posted on 04/06/2007 8:22:31 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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