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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: NHSparky on November 02, 2009, 11:27:13 AM
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Patriotic photo refused
Student planning military career prohibited from showing cap, flag
By Ray Duckler
Monitor columnist
October 31, 2009
LINK (http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091031/FRONTPAGE/910310306&Template=printart)
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At Merrimack Valley High, the yearbook policy prohibits photos like the one Jordan Westgate submitted. He's wearing his army combat hat, and he's standing in front of the American flag. What's the problem? asks Jordan, a senior who completed the Army's basic training last summer.
He's showing no disrespect. No disrespect at all. No hats and no props? Well, okay, for the most part. But shouldn't exceptions be made, especially these days, when we're fighting two wars simultaneously?
In fact Westgate, who will become a full-time soldier after graduation, believes he's showing more respect than anyone else in his class.
Where's the beef?
"I think it's disrespectful to disassemble the uniform," says Westgate, sitting in his kitchen with his mom, Dee, nearby. "It's disrespectful to the men and women who have fought and died before me."
Jordan and Dee want the issue in the open. They feel passionate about their cause. The MV administration, meanwhile, has dug in and stuck to the letter of its law.
The rule debuted four years ago, after students began submitting their own digitally snapped photos, often casual, posed, full-length and, the administration believed, inappropriate for the formal flavor sought in the student's portrait section.
Therein lies the seeds of our feud. It's lasted the better part of two months. Jordan will have his yearbook photo taken by a fellow student and her digital camera, but the residual effects linger with the family.
It certainly didn't help when Dee, anticipating a fight and searching for ammunition, found a picture of a Muslim girl who covered her head with a traditional scarf in the 2007 yearbook's junior class section.
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Un- :censored: -believeable.
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WTF!! I can not believe that they would do such sh*t!
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I can think of worse things that have been allowed or even encouraged to be included in year books.
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I can think of worse things that have been allowed or even encouraged to be included in year books.
My high school graduating class was small. Each senior got to design their own page to put in the yearbook. One of my classmates entire page was a picture of a spoon and a candle, and her name. That's it.
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WTF!! I can not believe that they would do such sh*t!
You know, the way the leftist goons have a stranglehold on education in this country, nothing they do surprises me any more. It's all par for the course when they pull shit like this.
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That's in New Hampshire. What do you expect. Crossdressers and pervs, yes. Military, no.
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Bunch of filthy commies! :bird:
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My high school graduating class was small. Each senior got to design their own page to put in the yearbook. One of my classmates entire page was a picture of a spoon and a candle, and her name. That's it.
Was she a druggie, or was that an unintentional ambiguous reference?
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Today's schools, universities, and high brow elite have a socialist agenda.
Like how all those film critics gave 5 stars to that movie Sean Penn directed about a rich kid who hates his parents because they behave like human beings and buy him a new luxury car. Goes off into the wild and lives like a third world citizen, and then he is happy.
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Was she a druggie, or was that an unintentional ambiguous reference?
she wasn't into hard drugs, or at least didn't have the appearance of it.
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Liberals... gotta love them. I thought they were all gung-ho about the military now that Obama is dumping billions into fighting Afghanistan. I guess they only love the military when they serve a political purpose...
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Liberals... gotta love them. I thought they were all gung-ho about the military now that Obama is dumping billions into fighting Afghanistan. I guess they only love the military when they serve a political purpose...
You mean like when 0Bama went to Dover in the middle of the night for a photo op with flag draped coffins?
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You mean like when 0Bama went to Dover in the middle of the night for a photo op with flag draped coffins?
Or the F-16s that were in that photo-op cluster**** with Air Force One the VC-25 low pass over New York City.
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You mean like when 0Bama went to Dover in the middle of the night for a photo op with flag draped coffins?
I first saw that photo on the cover of Stars and Stripes, took up about 75% (or more) of the page. The caption made a big deal of him being "the first President since the wars began to do so. [go to Dover]" BFD, he's only the second President during that time, so it's just a backhanded slap at GWB. Plus, he obviously has no problem using the bodies of our fallen warriors as political props, but can't take time to visit wounded troops if he can't have a camera crew with him?
I will give him credit, someone taught him how to properly salute, with a small exception. They should have told him not to blink during it, especially since he had to know the photo was coming.
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I first saw that photo on the cover of Stars and Stripes, took up about 75% (or more) of the page. The caption made a big deal of him being "the first President since the wars began to do so. [go to Dover]" BFD, he's only the second President during that time, so it's just a backhanded slap at GWB. Plus, he obviously has no problem using the bodies of our fallen warriors as political props, but can't take time to visit wounded troops if he can't have a camera crew with him?
I will give him credit, someone taught him how to properly salute, with a small exception. They should have told him not to blink during it, especially since he had to know the photo was coming.
Several articles referred to his "surprise visit" at 3 a.m. to Dover. It seems to me that if it were a surprise visit, the media would not have been there unless it was a photo op.