[DeTomaso] Freedom -- NPC

[Doug Braun]

Mike,

It said NPC in the subject - what's wrong with these kind of stories?

Doug Braun

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From: DeTomaso On Behalf Of Mike & Elizabeth
Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2024 10:10 AM
To: audionut at hushmail.com; 'B Hower' <b.hower3400 at yahoo.com>;
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Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Freedom -- NPC

Let's try to keep this forum car related.

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From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> On Behalf Of
audionut--- via DeTomaso
Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2024 9:43 AM
To: B Hower <b.hower3400 at yahoo.com>; detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Freedom -- NPC

those poor kids--  being subjected to forced indoctrination is bad enough.
but then having to sit and listen to stale and stinking hot air emanating
from yesterdays old farts?  good lord. free your mind from patriotic
propaganda.  
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On 6/4/2024 at 6:53 PM, "B Hower via DeTomaso"  wrote:In September of 2005,
on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a History 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 in her
classroom. When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that
there were no desks. 'Ms.
Cothren, where are our desks?' She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you
tell me how you 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. Kids called their parents to tell them what
was happening and by early afternoon television news crews had started
gathering at the school 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 or 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 uniform, 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. They
went halfway around the world, giving up their education and interrupting
their careers and families so you could have the freedom you have. 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.' By the way, this is
a true story. And this teacher was awarded the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Teacher of the Year for the  State of Arkansas in 2006.
She is the daughter of a WWII POW.Do you think this email is worth passing
along so others won't forget either, that the freedoms we have in this great
country were earned by our U.S. Veterans?... I did. Let us always remember
the men and women of our military and the rights they have won for us.

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