[Shimmer1]

It's unlikely that I've forgotten the military dress codes, as I was a Navy wife for 23 years, not that that stacks up against a good bit of volunteer work. (rolling eyes)

For your edifying information, I was asking the other poster what HE thought the real issues were. You couldn't see that by the wording? And you have family that were military. Oh wow, you're the only one that had that. Did YOU perhaps serve??? or maybe you were just an armchair soldier?

Maybe a mtn was made of a molehill, but you also did that, with your exalted "volunteerism" la ti da.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I think the real issue is that the principal acted stupidly here and deserves a LOT of heat for doing so.

[fireman15]

We thank you for your husband’s service and for your support of him. I am sorry if I misunderstood that your comments which were addressed to me were actually meant for someone else.

I mentioned the volunteer work that we do to indicate where we are coming from, not to try and get some type of praise or admiration from you or anyone else here. Recognition from high command is not given to people who have made only casual commitments to the type of work that we do. Your dismissive comments, “(rolling eyes)”, “la-ti-da” and trying to somehow make us feel bad, indicates to us only the type of person that you seem to be inside. We are the type of people who spend a major part of our time getting out and doing for others. I don’t really consider that something that should be made fun of; even if we do have disagreements here.