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 deskless 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.'

By the way, this is a true story.. You can verify this by
clicking on http://www.snopes.com/glurge/nodesks.asp

God Bless America - and Our Veterans

What Is A Veteran?
A "Veteran" -- whether active duty, discharged, retired, or
reserve -- is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a
blank check made payable to "The United States of America," for an amount of
"up to, and including his life"
That is honor, and there are way too many people in this
country today, who no longer understand that fact. --------

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