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[Will_C]

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Well, if Franz does not get me fired, I will not be teaching any NEA lesson plans in my 8th grade history class on September 11. Like other posters have pointed out, I am a member of the NEA because in N.Y. you must belong, and it sickens me to be affiliated with such a group. My political and educational beliefs are 180 degrees different than the union's.
I am fortunate to teach in a rural school for administrators who share many of my views, and let me teach without having to be PC all the time. I, too, would be an ex-teacher if I was made to toe the academic drivel that is represented by NEA type thinking. So, please, don't advocate firing me just because I am forced to be in the NEA!
Will
P.S. I just came home from varsity football practice. I really don't think the NEA's sensitivity police would have liked all of my conduct as a coach!!!

 

[Tdog]

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Franz,

Maybe we should forward this to the NEA:

Subject: "DO NOT FORGET"


This is a little long, but VERY good and YOU NEED to read it!

"DO NOT FORGET"

I sat in a movie theater watching "Schindler's List," asked myself, "Why didn't the Jews fight back?"

Now I know why.

I sat in a movie theater, watching "Pearl Harbor" and asked myself, "Why weren't we prepared?"

Now I know why.

Civilized people cannot fathom, much less predict, the actions of evil people.

On September 11, dozens of capable airplane passengers allowed themselves to be overpowered by a
handful of poorly armed terrorists because they did not comprehend the depth of hatred that motivated their captors.

On September 11, thousands of innocent people were murdered because too many Americans naively reject the reality that some nations are dedicated to the dominance of others. Many political pundits, pacifists and media personnel want us to forget the carnage. They say we must focus on the bravery of the rescuers and ignore the cowardice of the killers. They implore us to understand the motivation of the perpetrators. Major television stations have announced they will assist the healing process by not replaying devastating footage of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers.

I will not be manipulated.

I will not pretend to understand.

And I will not forget.

I will not forget the liberal media who abused freedom of the press to kick our country when it was vulnerable and hurting.

I will not forget that CBS anchor Dan Rather preceded President Bush's address to the nation with the snide
remark, "No matter how you feel about him, he is still our president."

I will not forget that ABC TV anchor Peter Jennings questioned President Bush's motives for not returning immediately to Washington, DC and commented, "We're all pretty skeptical and cynical about Washington."

And I will not forget that ABC's Mark Halperin warned if reporters weren't informed of every little detail of this war,
they aren't "likely -- nor should they be expected -- to show deference."

I will not isolate myself from my fellow Americans by pretending an attack on the USS Cole in Yemen was not an attack on the United States of America.

I will not forget the Clinton administration equipped Islamic terrorists and their supporters with the world's most sophisticated telecommunications equipment and encryption technology, thereby compromising America's ability to trace terrorist radio, cell phone, land lines, faxes and modem communications.

I will not be appeased with pointless, quick retaliatory strikes like those perfected by the previous administration.

I will not be comforted by "feel-good, do nothing" regulations like the silly "Have your bags been under your control?" question at the airport.

I will not be influenced by so called,"antiwar demonstrators" who exploit the right of expression to chant anti-American obscenities.

I will not forget the moral victory handed the North Vietnamese by American war protesters who reviled and spat upon the returning soldiers, airmen, sailors and Marines.

I will not be softened by the wishful thinking of pacifists who chose reassurance over reality.

I will embrace the wise words of Prime Minister Tony Blair who told Labor Party conference, "They have no moral inhibition on the slaughter of the innocent. If they could have murdered not 7,000 but 70,000, does anyone doubt they would have done so and rejoiced in it?

There is no compromise possible with such people, no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must!"

I will force myself to:

-hear the weeping
-feel the helplessness
-imagine the terror
-sense the panic
-smell the burning flesh
-experience the loss
-remember the hatred.

I sat in a movie theater, watching "Private Ryan" and asked myself, "Where did they find the courage?"

Now I know.

We have no choice. Living without liberty is not living.

-- Ed Evans, MGySgt., USMC (Ret.)
Not as lean, Not as mean, But still a Marine.

Keep this going until every living American has read it and memorized it so we don't make the same mistake again

 

[cstocks]

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I like this. I copied it and sent it to everyone in my address book.

Thanks for sharing it with us.

 

[Wingnut]

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... and I will NOT forget the "peaceful Palestinians" dancing and rejoicing in the streets.
I will NOT forget the lies spewing in the arabic press about the events of Spetember 11th.

AND I will NEVER forget the muslim sympathizers in this country and will support whatever penalties might be levied against them is the government ever loses it's gutlessness and starts pursuing real villains.

 

[TAB]

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TDog I also won't forget what my father told me of the Pearl Harbor attack. He was at Hickam Field and then went acrossed the Pacific to Japan as the war progressed. Or what my uncles told me of what they went through on their way acrossed Europe and found in a concentration camp. I will also not forget that my cousin still cannot talk about his time Vietnam for more than a few sentences. I am proud of them all and hope my generation(the 40 somethings) and the next generations will have the courage to face up to our challenges. I know it's off topic a little, but it drives me nuts to see people standing or sitting at an event with their hat on during the National Anthem. I can't help but tell them that alot of people have given everything they could to give them their way of life and they can at least respect their memory.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

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Marine, let me put it this way, I spent a good amount of time since 71 watchin the crap promulgated by the NEA and the gutless wimps who are members thereof. Over time I've noticed a lot of NEA members were the gutless punks who hid in college from 66 thru 71, completing their masters in English Lit, and finally left the safety of the campus when the Draft system changed to a lottery. Upon completing matriculation they learned they had no worth in the employment market, other than becoming "teachers" in the Government School System, where they have since evolved into administrators and retirees.
I was also arund high school when the then teachers unionized, over some worthwhile arguments they had with administration. Back then, I got into deep dung for asking a teacher who had instructed me unions existed to enable the unskilled laborer to collectively bargain his worth with management. Since teachers then considered themselves professionals I asked how they could justify unionization.
Over the last 30 years, the NEA has completely prostituted itself, both as a union and as a professional organization. The NEA president has made the comment "when kids pay union dues the NEA will become concerned with their issues".
I've watched the slow incrimentalism employed by the NEA and it's members, and watched them use the tolerence lines, and the PC lines to get what they wanted, public be damned.
The question that all Americans need to ask is who is the easiest to victimize, a kid who doesn't know he's getting screwed out of his education, or a parent who got robbed of his? If the Education System is working why do so many kids going to college need remedial education? The situation should NOT be tolerated.
The knowledge content represented by a HS Diploma issued in June 2002 is definitely less than the one I was issued in 1960. The NY Regents Diploma was once a direct admit to many colleges in America, today it is a joke. The NY Board of Regents has admitted the knowledge content represented in the 2002 exams is less than 40% of the knowledge content of the 1960 exam in the same subject. Worse yet, many NEA member teachers were unable to pass the Regents exams in the subjects they were paid to teach.
The time has long passed to end tolerance, and call a spade a spade, or Etool.
Mayhaps I see things in a different frame of reference than those of you in your 40s, that may well be, cause I can't even see 40 in the mirror any longer. Mayhaps those in their 30s and 40s ought to open their eyes and ask questions.
For those who understand, no explanation is necessary, for those who don't none is possible. SCPO USNCB RVN
Semper Fi Marine

 

[PhilNH5]

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I can't help but laugh Franz. And I shouldn't hit send at the end of this but I shall. "gutless wimps" - So if you don't agree with Franz's hatred you are a gutless wimp. Well sign me up then under gutless wimp. But then you knew that didn't you.

So you graduated in 1960 - assuming you were 18 then that makes you 60 now. Plenty of time to absorb the doings of the world, formulate your opinions and sharpen your sword.

But despite your cries of the death of the union - America rolls on as the best country in the world. Strongest economy, best military, most productive workers, One of the highest starndards of living. Heck we even have your freind Hilary Clinton in office and the world continues to turn.

And of course if anyone disagrees you have a pithy little quote at the end
"For those who understand, no explanation is necessary, for those who don't none is possible." So obviously I simply lack the intellectual capability or abstract reasoning skills to see how right you are. Good for me.

Phil

 

[wroughtn_harv]

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<font color=blue>So if you don't agree with Franz's hatred you are a gutless wimp. Well sign me up then under gutless wimp.</font color=blue>

ditto

I just spent thirty hours real time with a brother in law that's within two weeks of my age. We both are Nam vets, me two tours, him one. What blew both of us away is all the similarities in our lives and yet the polarized positions politically. I have two guns in the house, heirlooms. He has over five hundred and is prepared for the doomsday.

I did have him in conservative hades for a day because I have PBR permanently dialed in on the shop radio. He's a Rushabee.

It is hard to understand. As we swapped stories about our experiences in Nam his involved whacking gooks with whatever was available at the time whether it was a piece of board or kicking open the door of a duece and a half at speed to catch a pedestrian.

I had to recall talking to a seventy something year old mother thirty plus years later about her son's death. I was there when he died. After assuring her he never knew it was coming and that he died instantly she wanted to know if it was truly as pretty there as he'd told her in his letters. Then she asked if I ever felt like he did about wanting to go back over for a visit after the war was over.

I do.

BTW bro in law is convinced that we coulda shoulda won the war. I'm convinced we should never have been over there in the first place. And that we would have lost no matter how many more we had killed.

There is also the interesting fact that both of us have these rashes. He says it's from Agent Orange. And that I should go and get the test for it. I can pick up an instant thirty percent disability and if I have one of the many cancers caused by it a hundred percent disability is mine to enjoy.

What's interesting to me is some of the same cancers I am already on a list for compensation for my heirs if it takes my life. You might be reading the ramblings of a true victim of the cold war. My mother was. It seems some of those atomic tests in Nevada were done at just the perfectly wrong time to make living in northern Arizona hazardous for one's longevity.

Some of you might comiserate with my brother in law. He had to call a compatriot to complain about me. As he cried like he had a boob in a pinch about my political views to his bud he finished off with the observation that I'm a card carrying member of the Sierra Club and addicted to PBR.

I'm so lucky. I've seen what I could have become.

 

[MikePA]

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What's PBR?

 

[wroughtn_harv]

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Sorry, <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.pbs.org/npr/>NPR</A>, It's been an emotional week. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif