Bravo, Bravo!
The kid should instruct the teacher to address him as Sir or General henceforth.
When I was his age I got to play with painted WWI toy soldiers made of lead and played with by my father. I can’t even imagine a child’s life where toy soldiers are banned! I’m thinking the people responsible for this need to be kept far far away from children.
RI a pitiful little state trying to make a name for it self, PC morons.
Good story. Great outcome!
“We can only hope that kids of your caliber...”
I hope the Lt. General didn’t get in trouble for his choice of words.
A challenge coin is not a medal.
Anyway, I wonder if the General told him how to use it. ;)
Of course, the medal depicts soldiers with tiny guns, so the kid will probably be sent home again if he wears the medal to school.
To ban that child with that hat, that teacher would have to be mentally ill.
Seriously.
Even the ACLU couldn’t stomach this one.
Fantastic.
LOL.
These cuckoo “less than zero tolerance” high muckety mucks aren’t willing to stop at a obviously toy gun. They aren’t willing to stop at a chicken finger. They aren’t willing to stop at a pointed hand finger. They aren’t even willing to stop at a gun figure which is molded as one piece of a toy soldier in the same color plastic!
They are trying to girlify all the boys while they’re still young, rather than to tell off a few misguided kids when their mischief goes beyond acceptable bounds.
Rightious!
Centracchio said the second-grader should be thanked for recognizing veterans and soldiers.
“You did nothing wrong, and you did an outstanding job,” he said. “We can only hope that kids of your caliber will continue to defend this country.”
The teachers at the school are probably furious and gnashing their teeth at being rebuked like this.
They told the kid he did wrong. Now the kid gets a coin and recognition defying them. And no doubt every kid in school is aware of it.
There are over a thousand comments, one is by a person who’s ten year old daughter was rebuked for a public display of affection because another ten year old had her hand on her shirt sleeve.
I hate zero tolerance. It’s another word for idiocy.
He does look like a real hooligan though. He most likely has attended some of those racist red neck Tea Parties also.
the toy soldiers on it carried tiny guns
The school is right they are lethal weapons!!!
Did you ever step on one of these in your bare feet? They are killers
They could probably arrange something for this boy that he will remember for the rest of his life. A meeting with a Medal of Honor recipient!
Only 90 are still alive. That is, one MoH recipient for every 3.44 million Americans. The odds of meeting one are very small for most people.
The oldest living MoH recipient just passed away at 100 years of age.
He also lived in Rhode Island, this boy’s home State.
No idea if there are any more surviving MoH recipients who live in Rhode Island. But I will give you odds, if there is one living anywhere near, he would be glad to meet a patriotic boy.
