Posted on Oct 12, 2015
Should this young man have been given a in-school susupension for wearing a battlefield cross t-shirt in honor of the fallen?
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Alan Holmes, an eighth-grade student in Gresham, Ore., still remembers the day his older brother returned home after serving in Iraq with the Marines.
“I was proud of him,” Holmes told ABC affiliate KATU. “I remember the day he came home and I was just so happy. I was little but I still remember it, he made me happy.”
As he got older, Holmes’s pride turned into patriotism. He wanted to demonstrate that patriotism last week by wearing a T-shirt to school that included a design memorializing fallen soldiers and bearing the words “Standing for those who stood for us,”
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oregon-8th-grader-suspended-from-school-for-wearing-patriotic-shirt-showing-gun/ar-AAflijQ?li=AAa0dzB&ocid=SMSDHP
“I was proud of him,” Holmes told ABC affiliate KATU. “I remember the day he came home and I was just so happy. I was little but I still remember it, he made me happy.”
As he got older, Holmes’s pride turned into patriotism. He wanted to demonstrate that patriotism last week by wearing a T-shirt to school that included a design memorializing fallen soldiers and bearing the words “Standing for those who stood for us,”
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oregon-8th-grader-suspended-from-school-for-wearing-patriotic-shirt-showing-gun/ar-AAflijQ?li=AAa0dzB&ocid=SMSDHP
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