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Outsider Asst. Admin User is Offline Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 4203 Karma: 27 applaud / smite Location: North Carolina 32274 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:50 pm    Post subject: Freedom IS NOT free · Quote I was sent this via Email today and can neither confirm nor deny it's validity, still a great read and makes a great point. Read on Author unknown. Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a Social Studies 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 took all of the desks out of the classroom. The kids came into first period, they walked in to find there were no no desks. They looked around and said, "Ms. Cothren, where's our desk?" 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." She told them, "No, it's not even your behavior." They first period came and went...still no desks in the classroom. Second period, third period, same thing.  By early afternoon television news crews had gathered in Ms. Cothren's classroom to find out about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out. For 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. She says, "Throughout the day no one has really understood how you earn the desks that ordinarily sit in this classroom.  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. By the time they had finished placing those desks, those kids for the first time 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.  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 _________________ <table border="0" bordercolor="#F6FCFD" width="1" bgcolor="#F6FCFD"> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> </td> </tr>Commanding Officer M.S.T. Alpha company <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </table>
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ladyfirefighter LT Chaplain User is Offline Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 376 Karma: 6 applaud / smite Location: North Carolina 10793 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:45 pm    Post subject: · Quote I so believe that!!!  It is NOT FREE!!! _________________ Established member 25+Posts LT. Forum Chaplain Company Liaison M.S.T. Charlie Company Joint OPs member Kelly G <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="304" height="244" src="http://widgets.clearspring.com/p/9ko1YDk2Mjc2bDZsN20wZ2QzLGE5bTgxYmUxMTRkYDMwYTJ4NWA5NjdlYGM2Zj YzZ2ZkZA" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" id="W4889dc00d51af143"> </embed> <a target="_blank"href="http://www.freepowerboards.com/firerescue/index.php">Emergency Personnel and Friends!</a> <a target="_blank"href="http://www.freepowerboards.com/storkseekers/index.php">Stork Seekers</a> <a target="_blank"href="http://www.freepowerboards.com/sewfine/index.php">Sew Fine</a>
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USMCwife cwo 1 User is Offline Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1262 Karma: 8 applaud / smite Location: Howard, Ohio 1244 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:00 am    Post subject: · Quote How true that rings. I haven't found anything in this world that is actually FREE. I believe there is a price to be paid for everything and anything we do. _________________ Staff member Staff Officer M.S.T. Delta Company
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PATCHES SR. Chaplain User is Offline Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 12997 Karma: 16 applaud / smite Location: Randolph, County N.C. 9216 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:50 am    Post subject: · Quote That is such a very true statement, and it goes all the way back to the very beginning of our history to the Rev. War. We fought to be free from our Mother Country and the only way to keep that freedom is to keep fighting for it. _________________ Staff Moderator Company XO   M.S.T. Charlie CO. SR. Forum Chaplain I used to ask God if He would come and help me. Then I asked if I could come and help Him. Finally I ended by asking God to do His own work through me.
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