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Remember our Troops...

katrina

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> 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.'
> >
> > My friend, I think sometimes we forget that the freedoms that we have
> > are freedoms not because of celebrities. The freedoms are because of
> > ordinary people who did extraordinary things, who loved this country more
> > than life itself, and who not only earned a school desk for a kid at the
> > Robinson High School in Little Rock, but who earned a seat for you and me to
> > enjoy this great land we call home, this wonderful nation that we better
> > love enough to protect and preserve with the kind of conservative, solid
> > values and principles that made us a great nation.
> >
> > 'We live in the Land of the Free because of the brave'
> >
> > Remember our Troops...
 
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