Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 19:17:02 -0400
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: Fort Wayne IN School Rewrites History
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[Note from Matthew Gaylor:  In a perfect world this principal would be fired.]

<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,35435,00.html>

Tongue Tied: Making Over the Minutemen

Monday, October 01, 2001
By Scott Norvell

The minuteman mascot at Jefferson Middle School in Fort Wayne,
Ind., has had a makeover, writes columnist Kevin Leininger of the
News-Sentinel. Gone is his musket, because the principal says guns
have no place in schools.

The image still stands on a wall just inside the main door of the
school, but was repainted recently to exclude the firearm.

Principal Michael Morris, who took over at the school in July, said:
"The mural needed to be repainted anyway, and this sends a
stronger, better message about patriotism. Everyone loves it."

Not everyone. "Those who would purge violence from American
history do more than dishonor the sacrifices made to write that
history: It gives children the inaccurate and dangerous notion that
our freedoms were won and can be maintained without a struggle,"
writes Leininger.

[...]


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