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<div dir="auto">Lessons come & go.....but THAT lesson has 'Staying Power'!!!</div>
<div dir="auto">ALL those kids will remember it for the rest of their lives!!!</div>
<div dir="auto">Wonderful!!</div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Segoe UI", Helvetica, "S60 Sans", "BBAlpha Sans", Droid, Tahoma, Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"</span><i style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Segoe UI", Helvetica, "S60 Sans", "BBAlpha Sans", Droid, Tahoma, Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Freedom
is never more than one generation away from extinction!! We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream! It must be fought </i><i style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Segoe UI", Helvetica, "S60 Sans", "BBAlpha Sans", Droid, Tahoma, Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">for,
protected, & handed on to them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children & our children's children what </i><i style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Segoe UI", Helvetica, "S60 Sans", "BBAlpha Sans", Droid, Tahoma, Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">it
was once like in the USA where men were Free!!</i><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Segoe UI", Helvetica, "S60 Sans", "BBAlpha Sans", Droid, Tahoma, Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"</span><span style="font-family:-apple-system, HelveticaNeue;font-size:16px;display:inline !important"></span>
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<span style="margin-top:5px"><b><span>Ronald Reagan</span></b></span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 4, 2024 8:24:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> B Hower <b.hower3400@yahoo.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> De Tomaso <detomaso@server.detomasolist.com>; {TPR} <tpr@teampanteraracing.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [TPR] Freedom -- NPC</font>
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<div dir="auto">A sobering reminder to be sure.
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<div>Thank you Bud for sharing with us. What a wonderful testimony of an amazing teacher and patriot for to explain to her students what freedom really means with no lectures or homework how those students can understand freedom is never free. Its paid by
those veterans selfish acts and sacrifices. </div>
<div>Amen 🙏🏼</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Jun 4, 2024, at 6:54 PM, B Hower via TPR <tpr@teampanteraracing.com> wrote:<br>
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<div>In September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a History 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 in her classroom. When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.
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<div>'Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?' </div>
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<div>She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.'
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<div>They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.' 'No,' she said.</div>
<div>'Maybe it's our behavior.' She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'</div>
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<div>And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom. Kids called their parents to tell them what was happening and by early afternoon television news crews had started gathering at the school to report
about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.</div>
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<div>The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the desk-less classroom. Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he or 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.'</div>
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<div>At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it. Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniform, 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.</div>
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<div>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. They went halfway around the world, giving up their education and interrupting their careers and families so you could have
the freedom you have. 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.'
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<div>By the way, this is a true story. And this teacher was awarded the Veterans of Foreign Wars Teacher of the Year for the State of Arkansas in 2006. She is the daughter of a WWII POW.</div>
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<div>Do you think this email is worth passing along so others won't forget either, that the freedoms we have in this great country were earned by our U.S. Veterans?... I did.
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<div>Let us always remember the men and women of our military and the rights they have won for us.</div>
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