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!
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 ...
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.
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.
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.”
OMG! That’s one-a-’m border vigilantes, what hates immigrants! I’m tellin’ Mommy!
Moderator! RACIST HATE SPEECH! HALP; MODERATOR! < / LittletonLib mode >
If that teacher had done that in Massachusetts she’d be guilty of a hate crime.
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
Somebody slap these idiots.
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!
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