Posted on 12/27/2013 12:00:41 PM PST by Kaslin
A group of 51 school children in Texas spent the week before Christmas making Christmas cards for veterans. According to the VA, the kids made a mistake by saying "Merry Christmas".
Fox News reports VA hospital refuses to accept 'Merry Christmas' cards.
Boys and girls at Grace Academy in Prosper, Tex., spent most of last Friday making homemade Christmas cards for bedridden veterans at the VA hospital in Dallas.
Fourth-grader Gracie Brown was especially proud of her card, hoping it would “make their day because their family might live far away, and they might not have somebody to celebrate Christmas with.”
Gracie’s card read, “Merry Christmas. Thank you for your service.” It also included an American flag.
But the bedridden veterans at the VA hospital will never get to see Gracie’s card. Nor will they see the cards made by 51 other students. That’s because the Christmas cards violated VA policy.
Hiram Sasser, director of litigation for Liberty Institute said "Targeting the benevolent work of little children for censorship is disgusting. Do the Grinches in the administration of the VA really believe our bravest warriors need protection from the heartfelt well wishes of small children saying Merry Christmas?"
The cards will not be thrown away -- they are being shipped to Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio and to a private facility for veterans in Louisiana.
Offending Cards
The VA is protecting our soldiers from receiving "offensive" such as the following.
Also consider this image fom Breitbart Veterans Affairs Bans Christmas Cards to Troops over Religious Content.
Lack of Common Sense
Banning "Merry Christmas" has nothing to do with banning school prayer. It does have everything to do with lack of common sense.
Christmas is a day. It is also a national holiday. If one wants to assign religious meaning to the day, one can. If one wants to treat it like a national holiday with no religious overtones, one can do that too.
If the VA wanted to remove cards with "clear" religious messages such as "Christ Died for You", I would not have a problem with it. But, "Merry Christmas" is a ubiquitous phrase.
Christmas is December 25, every year, like it or not. And it's a national holiday, every year, like it or not.
Banning "Merry Christmas" is absurd.
*MERRY CHRISTMAS, VETS!!!!!!!!!!*
(Now, come get me, Obama....)
Christmas is a NATIONAL HOLIDAY not only CHRISTIANITIES HOLIDAY
Noah Webster, Address, Newburyport, July 4, 1837 (celebrating the Declaration of Independence):And, now we have come to this!!"In the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior...It forms a leading event in the Progress of the Gospel dispensation..."Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth?
"That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the prophecies announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Saviour and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets 600 years before." - Noah Webster
Or some "mystery person" is supposedly "offended".
How come these people are never identified?
No not so that they could be harassed, but just so I could hear their actual reasons specifically WHY they are "offended".
Wouldn't we all benefit from such an "explanation"?
Lord help us.
What a mess.
You see this?
SMH....
I want an answer from Ted Cruz and John Cronyn. This is a Texas facility. This is spiteful and hurtful. There is no excuse and no explanation for this act of total pettiness. The VA must be as rogue as the IRS.
You expect to hear something from that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave? Don't you know he despises our veterans? You ask about FOX News. You must have missed this article in the link by Todd Starnes
Shit like this almost makes me want to go all John Effing Kerry and hurl my (meager) medals, ribbons, bars, and EGAs over the bleedin’ White House fence......
"(Thursday) marks the beginning of the week-long celebration of African American culture through family activities and community festivities that bring attention to Kwanzaa's seven principles of unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith."
Michelle & Barry
At SOME point maybe the rest of America will wake up to the danger Islam presents to USA, Christians and Jews. Before Obama , nobody on our public payroll would have dared deny American soldiers their Christmas cards from little children. (Who the hell do they think they are anyway ? What mail of Yours will they block You from receiving? You can bet they won’t block any Mohammed birthday cards or , alas , bills. Just anything g Christian. Jewish or even remotely patriotic. ). Three more years. Pray for America.
More like dragged into an alley and horsewhipped.
As a wise old Sergeant said “There are no Atheists in a foxhole”
My 24 yr military career was the result of bad timing- I joined when a sexual revolution was happening and I left when the Army decided to have another.
Dumb kids should have written ‘Happy Id al Fitr’.
Then the cards would have received expedited treatment.
It's the only way that Government Supremacists can pretend that Government is the highest authority. Then they can merrily kill all the Christians and Jews without thinking too much about it.
“I was just following orders”
“One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic”
“We must not have prayer in our public schools”
Same demon acting as puppeteer to different Leftists.
but according to Jon Steward, the war on Christmas has been fabricated by Fox.
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