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TOMAHAWK9521 · 08-04-2010, 07:22

I had nephews in Junior High and Highschool over on west side of Columbus, OH who had to deal with their Somali classmates jumping up and cheering "Death to America" when news that the towers fell got to their school. The Somalis didn't like the fact that no one else shared their joy and were furious to discover the 1st Amendment didn't include the requirement of anyone else having to stay around and listen to them.

One of those nephews, had an additional incident in school a couple years later. When one of his Somali classmates was vomiting an anti-US diatribe as part of a class project, my nephew packed up his books and began to walk out. The teacher asked where he was going to which he replied "The principle's office." The teacher said she didn't excuse him, at which time the aforementioned Somali got in my nephew's face and demanded why he shouldn't have to listen. My nephew explained how many of his relatives, to include his older brothers, were currently fighting I-slamic militants overseas and pretty much anything this guy uttered was complete BS. When the Somali kid tried to prevent him from leaving, my nephew naturally folded the kid in half and then asked if he could go to the principle's office.

Once the principle gone the whole picture of what had transpired, he quietly took my nephew out to lunch.

That same nephew and I linked up in Mosul 2 years ago, he on his first assignment and I on my last. I was a team daddy and he was a combat engineer doing route clearance twice a day. I assured him there was no envy on my part as to who had the trickier job.

08-04-2010, 07:22	#46
TOMAHAWK9521 Quiet Professional Join Date: May 2008 Location: Idaho Posts: 1,209	I had nephews in Junior High and Highschool over on west side of Columbus, OH who had to deal with their Somali classmates jumping up and cheering "Death to America" when news that the towers fell got to their school. The Somalis didn't like the fact that no one else shared their joy and were furious to discover the 1st Amendment didn't include the requirement of anyone else having to stay around and listen to them. One of those nephews, had an additional incident in school a couple years later. When one of his Somali classmates was vomiting an anti-US diatribe as part of a class project, my nephew packed up his books and began to walk out. The teacher asked where he was going to which he replied "The principle's office." The teacher said she didn't excuse him, at which time the aforementioned Somali got in my nephew's face and demanded why he shouldn't have to listen. My nephew explained how many of his relatives, to include his older brothers, were currently fighting I-slamic militants overseas and pretty much anything this guy uttered was complete BS. When the Somali kid tried to prevent him from leaving, my nephew naturally folded the kid in half and then asked if he could go to the principle's office. Once the principle gone the whole picture of what had transpired, he quietly took my nephew out to lunch. That same nephew and I linked up in Mosul 2 years ago, he on his first assignment and I on my last. I was a team daddy and he was a combat engineer doing route clearance twice a day. I assured him there was no envy on my part as to who had the trickier job. __________________ "It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live." -Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) Last edited by TOMAHAWK9521; 08-04-2010 at 07:28.
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