Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

RI boy who made banned toy soldier hat gets medal
Yahooo! ^ | 6/18/10 | ap

Posted on 06/18/2010 4:02:32 PM PDT by mdittmar

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Rhode Island boy whose school banned a hat he made because the toy soldiers on it carried tiny guns was awarded a medal on Friday for his patriotic efforts.

Lt. Gen. Reginald Centracchio, the retired head of the Rhode Island National Guard, gave 8-year-old David Morales a medal called a challenge coin during an appearance on WPRO-AM's John DePetro show.

Centracchio said the second-grader should be thanked for recognizing veterans and soldiers.

"You did nothing wrong, and you did an outstanding job," he said. "We can only hope that kids of your caliber will continue to defend this country."

Centracchio also gave David a certificate that allows him to call himself a brigadier general.

David was assigned to make a hat last week for a project at the Tiogue School in Coventry. He chose a patriotic theme and glued plastic Army figures to a camouflage baseball cap. But school officials said the hat ran afoul of their no-weapons policy because the Army men held tiny guns.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: banglist; education; payback; rhodeisland; wartoys
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-59 next last
To: mdittmar

To ban that child with that hat, that teacher would have to be mentally ill.

Seriously.


21 posted on 06/18/2010 4:37:20 PM PDT by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ROCKLOBSTER
...Yeah...and let him drive a tank on the next military parade.....

make him the parade marshal and keys of the city.

22 posted on 06/18/2010 4:38:25 PM PDT by spokeshave (From The One to zero in just 16 months – the myth has ended.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar

Even the ACLU couldn’t stomach this one.


23 posted on 06/18/2010 4:41:05 PM PDT by Sloth (Civil disobedience? I'm afraid only the uncivil kind is going to cut it this time.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar

Fantastic.


24 posted on 06/18/2010 4:45:16 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dogbert41

I remember those soldiers. My dad gave me his. My son broke them by accident. I can’t figure out how. I won’t think on it more. It makes me sad.


25 posted on 06/18/2010 4:48:01 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar
A Challenge Coin? That's GREAT! I only hope the good Lt. Gen. Reginald Centracchio is around when this kid is old enough to learn what to do with it.

LOL.

26 posted on 06/18/2010 4:50:23 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Fundamentally Fair
Anyway, I wonder if the General told him how to use it. ;)

LOL....that's the first thing I thought as well. This is wonderful on so many levels.

27 posted on 06/18/2010 4:51:18 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Paladin2

Zero tolerance sees a gun as a gun no matter what. Zero tolerance is the enemy, guns are not.


28 posted on 06/18/2010 4:52:03 PM PDT by w1andsodidwe (How can you tell when the President is lying? When his lips move, of course.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar

These cuckoo “less than zero tolerance” high muckety mucks aren’t willing to stop at a obviously toy gun. They aren’t willing to stop at a chicken finger. They aren’t willing to stop at a pointed hand finger. They aren’t even willing to stop at a gun figure which is molded as one piece of a toy soldier in the same color plastic!

They are trying to girlify all the boys while they’re still young, rather than to tell off a few misguided kids when their mischief goes beyond acceptable bounds.


29 posted on 06/18/2010 4:52:41 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar

Rightious!


30 posted on 06/18/2010 4:52:58 PM PDT by Crim (The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompitence..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lurker

Kid’s the youngest member of that militia now!


31 posted on 06/18/2010 4:53:50 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar

Centracchio said the second-grader should be thanked for recognizing veterans and soldiers.

“You did nothing wrong, and you did an outstanding job,” he said. “We can only hope that kids of your caliber will continue to defend this country.”

The teachers at the school are probably furious and gnashing their teeth at being rebuked like this.

They told the kid he did wrong. Now the kid gets a coin and recognition defying them. And no doubt every kid in school is aware of it.


32 posted on 06/18/2010 4:54:07 PM PDT by I still care (I believe in the universality of freedom -George Bush, asked if he regrets going to war.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: I still care

They must be seething “HOW DARE YOU.” While the National Guardsman and the kids’ parents are proud as punch.


33 posted on 06/18/2010 4:55:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar

There are over a thousand comments, one is by a person who’s ten year old daughter was rebuked for a public display of affection because another ten year old had her hand on her shirt sleeve.

I hate zero tolerance. It’s another word for idiocy.


34 posted on 06/18/2010 4:56:10 PM PDT by I still care (I believe in the universality of freedom -George Bush, asked if he regrets going to war.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar
And to think back in the late 60’s I wore my loaded cap gun to kindergarten. I also had my Green Beret lunch box depicting violent war scenes.

He does look like a real hooligan though. He most likely has attended some of those racist red neck Tea Parties also.

35 posted on 06/18/2010 4:56:16 PM PDT by mickey finn
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 21twelve

His “choice” of words may have been intentional. ;-)


36 posted on 06/18/2010 4:56:40 PM PDT by rickb308 (Muslims need to check with Native Americans & ask how that whole cowboys & indians thing worked out.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar

BB Guns vs. green army men.


37 posted on 06/18/2010 4:58:42 PM PDT by Paladin2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Islander7

“Oh the rifle,
Yes the rifle,
In our hands will prove no trifle!”

I remember singing something like that in music class in a Kentucky pubskewl when I was a kid, in the late sixties, as the teacher gal played it on the piano. That’d give these liberals a heart attack now. They ought to organize Kid Militias after school and rub it in even further.


38 posted on 06/18/2010 5:00:38 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar

the toy soldiers on it carried tiny guns


The school is right they are lethal weapons!!!

Did you ever step on one of these in your bare feet? They are killers


39 posted on 06/18/2010 5:01:58 PM PDT by boxerblues
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: boxerblues

Not the silly soft plastic stuff molded in China today.


40 posted on 06/18/2010 5:02:47 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-59 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson