Thank a Veteran today

[blkscls1z]

And have a moment of silence for all those who gave the ultimate sacrifice.

[trickey]

THANK YOU ALL!!!!!!!!

[LXtasy]

Thanks to all veterans for sure!

[ForceFed4g63]

Big big thank you to all our vets! I know there's a lot on here, thank you guys for protecting us!

[Matts94Z28]

Thanks to all!

[cmd]

Sincere THANK YOU to all vets active or retired, here or abroad... words can't describe what you mean to our country.

[00blackws6mn6]

Thank you to allow my fellow veterans current and past for your service.

[Smith Bros. Racing]

Thank you all who has served and is serving. We wouldn't be able to do what we love so much with all of you who have made the ultimate sacrifice.

[Mike]

Thank you to all the Veterans.
I'm sure everyone has heard this story, but it's worth repeating.

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.

'Ms. Cothren, where're 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.

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.'

[jmd]

thank you all!!!

[Carlrx7]

thanks to them all, you too Neal!

[Chillerman]

Originally Posted by Mike

Thank you to all the Veterans.
I'm sure everyone has heard this story, but it's worth repeating.

We need more people like this. Thank you to all of our veterans, past, present, and future.

[blueyed tuner]

Thanks to all including my oldest son who is in Afganistan.

[98Camarod]

I'll be gone for the holidays

thanks to everyone else who knows what we go through