[Beef]

My Dad sent this to me so I thought that I would share it with you guys. According to TruthorFiction.com this is a true story.


>
> Where did your classroom desks come from?
>
> Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren,
a
> social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock,
did
> something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with
> permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the
building
> supervisor, she took all of the desks out of the classroom.
>
> The kids came into first period, they walked in, there were no desks.
> They obviously looked around and said, "Ms. Cothren, where's our
desk?"
> And she said, "You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn
them."
>
> They thought, "Well, maybe it's our grades."
> "No," she said.
> "Maybe it's our behavior."
> And she told them, "No, it's not even your behavior."
> And so they came and went in the first period, still no desks in the
> classroom. Second period, same thing, third period. By early afternoon
> television news crews had gathered in Ms. Cothren's class to find out
> about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of the
classroom.
> The last period of the day, Martha Cothren gathered her class. They
were
> at this time sitting on the floor around the sides of the room. And
she
> says, "Throughout the day no one has really understood how you earn
the
> desks that sit in this classroom ordinarily. " She said, "Now I'm
going to
> tell you."
>
> Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it,
and
> as she did, 27 U.S. veterans, wearing their uniforms, walked into that
> classroom, each one carrying a school desk. And they placed those
school
> desks in rows, and then they stood along the wall. And by the time
they
> had finished placing those desks, those kids for the first time I
think
> perhaps in their lives, understood how they earned those desks.
>
> Martha said, "You don't have to earn those desks. These guys did it
for
> you. They put them out there for you, but it's up to you to sit here
> responsibly to learn, to be good students and good citizens, because
they
> paid a price for you to have that desk, and don't ever forget it."
>
> My friend, I think sometimes we forget that the freedoms that we have
are
> freedoms not because of celebrities. The freedoms are because of
ordinary
> people who did extraordinary things, who loved this country more than
life
> itself, and who not only earned a school desk for a kid at the
Robinson
> High School in Little Rock, but who earned a seat for you and me to
enjoy
> this great land we call home, this wonderful nation that we better
love
> enough to protect and preserve with the kind of conservative, solid
values
> and principles that made us a great nation. "We live in the Land of
the
> Free because of the brave."
>
> Remember only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you,
Jesus
> Christ and the American Soldier.
> One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.
>

LIFE ISN'T TIED WITH A BOW, BUT IT'S STILL A GIFT

[-STAT-]

That is one of the best things I have ever read in my life. That is one remarkable and touching story to read.

[Midee1]

Excellent moral story for the younger generation. Things do not get handed to you on a silver platter. Somewhere out there someone has did something remarkable so that we can live life the way we do.


God Bless Our Troops.alute:

[TidesHoss32]

That was easily the best thing Ive read in a long long while. It has everything that is right about our country, and the way we all should be living, and lays it out for us. Great moral and message..God bless our soldiers, and we should all pray for their safe return.

[cards_athlete]

Beautiful story!

[Amun-Ra]

Cant wait till some group hears this and demands she be fired for some insane reason.

[BC75]

Thats a great story. One smart woman.

[thetribe]

Amazing story Beef.

[warriorpride]

Very amazing