Posted on 12/24/2013 8:10:14 PM PST by raccoonradio
Boys and girls at Grace Academy in Prosper, Tex., spent most of last Friday making homemade Christmas cards for bedridden veterans at the VA hospital in Dallas.
Fourth-grader Gracie Brown was especially proud of her card, hoping it would “make their day because their family might live far away, and they might not have somebody to celebrate Christmas with.”
“I’d like them to know they’ve not been forgotten and somebody wanted to say thank you,” Gracie told MyFoxDFW.com.
Gracie’s card read, “Merry Christmas. Thank you for your service.” It also included an American flag.
But the bedridden veterans at the VA hospital will never get to see Gracie’s card. Nor will they see the cards made by 51 other students. That’s because the Christmas cards violated VA policy.
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Wow, this is disgusting..... I was born Jewish. When I was growing up our family did not celebrate Christmas in the religious sense of the holiday. However, I had no problem receiving Christmas cards or even saying “Merry Christians” to them. What is there to be offended about? Similarly, I would not be offended today if a black family sent me a Kwanzaa card, OR if a Muslim family sent me a Ramadan greeting. In fact, if I was a sick patient confined in a VA Hospital, I would appreciate that someone, especially children, took the time and effort to send me good cheer. I would also think it was a credit to the school and the instructor that would tap the God given empathy that children possess in such a positive way. How can these progressives claim they are so tolerant and enlightened while at the same time proclaiming and imposing upon society some unwritten right not to feeeel offended?
That doesn't make me sad, it makes me angry. The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs oversees the VA. We need to turn up the heat on its chairman, Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.).
cards or even saying “Merry Christians”
Sorry should be “”Christmas”” I did not check my spell check after a type-o
Merry Christmas, VA administrators, and be sure to shove your intolerance where the Sun don’t shine.
I don't ever recall reading so much negative treatment of our men and women in the Military as I have under Obama…
He never served, he does not understand what our men and women really provide…and off he goes on another Hawaiian vacation…
When are Americans going to make these saboteurs pay?
Oklahoma is a whole lot more conservative than Texas - and I’ve lived in both places.
http://www.index.va.gov/search/va/va_search.jsp?QT=christmas+cards&LC=1
I found a number of references to Christmas and Christmas cards here and nothing I saw mentioned religious prohibitions. Is this something that’s being left up to local administrators?
bump
This guy Milligan needs to be shown the door out, acknowledging that such is tough to do in any government. In WWII we had diverse religious followings, but religion was a personal matter and honored as such for different occasions. As I view the opinion of Mr. Milligan I take especial note that he transforms an individual gift/greeting into some group package or group thinking. He has certainly expressed the communal attitude/allowance for giving.
Whether this is an official global policy of the VA or just a local administrator flexing his authority, the fact that this is not perceived as totally ridiculous is the issue. Too many people accept this imagined “right” not to feel offended and the duty of government to impose limited speech on us. It is Orwellian tyranny. All of a sudden people in this society are so thin skinned. When they feel offended, what ever offends them should be against the law.
Mormon hope and change and liberalism wasn't any better than Manchurian hope and change and liberalism, with or without Texas.
Second the motion...
Hey, RockLobster. We Jews love to get Christmas cards as well as Chanukah cards. My son’s a combat veteran of Iraq and he gets them. It’s nice to hear from friends.
By the way, we did have a role in the originations of Christmas. One of our guys did well in the world.
However, I do not accept Quonset Hut cards.
I had seen this last night via a forwarded tweet from Todd Starnes/Fox News.
toddstarnes @toddstarnes 10h
VA hospital refuses to accept Christmas cards from kids because they included the words "Merry Christmas"
http://fxn.ws/18Kqv45
some tweeted responses
The separation of troops and Christmas is clearly in the US Constitution
This will be going on for at least three more years
This is just sad. Glad they could be sent elsewhere.
The insanity of political correctness. When does it end?
I wonder if anyone asked the veterans their opinion on the cards...doubt it.
I bet Veterans wouldn't mind!
I know our DAVA cards got distributed at all VA clinics and hospitals in Alabama.
If I had been in charge, I would have let the cards go to the vets.
It's a choice anyone can make. No guts..no glory.
The left's vacuous intolerance know no bounds.
I wonder does VA policy now exclude Christian soldiers? The US Army in the summer of 69 trained us to oppose ALL enemy foreign or domestic by learning of our foundation—including the General Order by George Washington expecting his Army to so live and act as becomes the Christian soldier...Now the VA has policy contrary to George Washington? Contrary to the Foundation—the Articles of War/ and the UCMJ are not hostile toward Christianity—but the VA has policy that excludes such?
This is how the occupiers treat our hero’s, with disdain and disrespect.
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