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Hello from Manila, Steve!
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When stories like this is circulated on the internet, they are often proven to be hoaxes...it is not difficult to find many of these hoaxes through an online search. 
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It is extremely refreshing to see an inspirational story like this which proves to be totally factual.
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Thank you for sending it,
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Bob Edison
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<br/>On January 6, 2014 at 6:06 PM Steven Lingle <barisax@olypen.com> wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br/></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><img id="_x0000_i1026" height="386" width="397" src="https://webmail.networksolutionsemail.com/ajax/image/mail/picture?folder=default0%2FINBOX%2FDraft&id=4681&uid=3471768577_22994642" border="0"/><br/></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br/> <br/></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">NOW  <span style="text-decoration: underline;">SHE</span> IS A TEACHER!!!<br/> <br/>    In September  of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a History teacher  at Robinson High School in   Little Rock , did something not to be  forgotten.  On the first day of school, with the permission of the  school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she  removed all of the desks in her classroom. When the first period kids  entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.   <br/>'Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?'<br/> <br/></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br/></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">She  replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right  to sit at a desk.' <br/>    They  thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.'  'No,' she  said.<br/>    'Maybe  it's our behavior.' She told them, 'No, it's not even your  behavior.'<br/> <br/></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br/></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">   And so,  they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still  no desks in the classroom. Kids called their parents to tell them what  was happening and by early afternoon television news crews had started  gathering at the school to report about this crazy teacher who had taken  all the desks out of her room.<br/> <br/></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br/></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">   The  final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on  the floor of the desk-less classroom. Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout  the day no one has been able to tell me just what he or she has done to  earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this  classroom. Now I am going to tell you.'<br/> <br/></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br/></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">   At this  point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened  it. Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniform, walked into that  classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the  school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside  the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place  those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their  lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been  earned.<br/> <br/></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br/></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">   Martha  said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did  it for you. They placed the desks here for you. They went halfway around  the world, giving up their education and interrupting their careers and  families so you could have the freedom you have. Now, it's up to you to  sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to  be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom  <br/>to get an education. Don't ever forget it.' <br/></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br/></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">   By the  way, this is a true story. And this teacher was awarded Veterans of  Foreign Wars Teacher of the Year for the State of   Arkansas in 2006. She is the daughter of a  WWII POW.<br/> <br/><br/>     <strong>Do you think this email is worth  passing along so others won't forget either, that the freedoms we have  in this great country were earned by  our   U.S.   Veterans?   ................... I did. <br/></strong></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br/></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Let us  always remember the men and women of our military and the rights they  have won for us.<br/></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br/> <br/></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><img id="_x0000_i1027" height="248" width="248" src="https://webmail.networksolutionsemail.com/ajax/image/mail/picture?folder=default0%2FINBOX%2FDraft&id=4681&uid=3471768577_23040650" border="0"/><br/></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br/> <br/> <br/></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><img id="_x0000_i1028" height="51" width="383" src="https://webmail.networksolutionsemail.com/ajax/image/mail/picture?folder=default0%2FINBOX%2FDraft&id=4681&uid=3471768577_23006983" border="0"/></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br/>  </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><img id="_x0000_i1029" height="223" width="248" src="https://webmail.networksolutionsemail.com/ajax/image/mail/picture?folder=default0%2FINBOX%2FDraft&id=4681&uid=3471768577_23015419" border="0"/><br/>From  the Desk & Heart of:<br/>Lloyd Ervin   Greenwood & Tricia S.   Greenwood <br/></span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br/></span><strong><em><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">IN  GOD WE TRUST <br/></span></em></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><img id="_x0000_i1030" height="54" width="411" src="https://webmail.networksolutionsemail.com/ajax/image/mail/picture?folder=default0%2FINBOX%2FDraft&id=4681&uid=3471768577_23032233" border="0"/></span></p>
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