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specrat · Joined: 29 Jun 2007 Posts: 201 Location: the shop

As I walked outside today to post the National Ensign in its holder at my mailbox in remembrance of the veterans who serve today, with whom I served, and my father and forefathers who served before me, I was quite disheartened to see that mine was the only flag to be seen up and down my block. This struck me as odd, because on other national holidays I have seen numerous flags waving in the wind. I guess Veterans' Day just isn't as fun to most civilians.
Have a wonderful Veterans' Day *everyone* - to my brothers who serve(d) and to those who enjoy the freedoms earned. If you never served, it doesn't really matter to us in the end, so walk up to a proud vet and shake a hand, give a hug. We don't ask for much in return, but a thanks goes a long ways. I know it sure puts a smile on my face and makes me proud.
Hoo-Yah!

throwing in a gratuitous firepower shot

DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 186 Location: Houston,Texas

You are absolutrly right Specrat.My flags were the only ones up in my neiborhood as well.I ran into several Marines in their dress blues this weekend ad made sure to give them a thank you and even got the young men and their significant others a couple of drinks on me.Ive been there and done that,I dont need to hear thank you.But when you do it does go along way.To all the vets...THANK YOU! TODAY AND ALWAYS! Twisted Evil

DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 186 Location: Houston,Texas

A WELL TAUGHT LESSON IS ONE WELL REMEMBERED
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 the permission of the school superintendent, the
principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the
desks
out of her classroom. When the first period kids entered the room
they discovered that there were no desks.
Looking around, confused, they asked, "Ms. Cothren, where're our
desks?" She replied, "You can't have a desk until you tell me what
you
have done to earn the right to sit at a desk."
They thought, "Well, maybe it's our grades."
"No," she said.
"Maybe it's our behavior."
She told them, "No, it's not even your behavior."
And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third
period.
Still no desks in the classroom. By early afternoon television
news
crews had started gathering in Ms. Cothren's classroom to report
about
this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.
The final period of the day came and as the puzzled
students found seats on
the floor of the desk less classroom, Martha Cothren
said, "Throughout the
day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she
has done to earn the right
to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in
this classroom. Now I am
going to tell you." .......
At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door
of her classroom and
opened it. Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in
uniforms, walked into that
classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets
began placing the school
desks in rows, and then they would walk over and
stand alongside the wall.
By the time the last soldier had set the final desk
in place those kids
started to understand, perhaps for the first time in
their lives, just how the
right to sit at those desks had been earned.
Martha said, "You didn't earn the right to sit at
these desks. These heroes
did it for you. They placed the desks here for you.
Now, it's up to you to
sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to
be good students, to be
good citizens. They paid the price so that you could
have the freedom to get an
education. Don't ever forget it."
If you can read this,
Thank a GOOD TEACHER
If you read it in ENGLISH
Thank a SOLDIER, SAILOR, MARINE, AIRMAN & COAST
GUARD!
CLASS DISMISSED......
Twisted Evil

M.W. · Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 134 Location: inside the loop

OK,Demon...that story is your best one yet. Thanks as always for posting it.

It should be publicized across this country...strength is what makes all other values possible.

Thank God that our soldiers and their supportive families are the strongest on this earth.