MARINE WILL VISIT STUDENTS WHO WROTE TO HIM
Last month, talk show host extraordinaire Neal Boortz wrote about a Greensboro, Ga., middle school that refused to allow a Marine to come visit a class of sixth-graders that had written him letters while he served in Iraq. After getting pressure from Boortz’s listeners and others, the local superintendent apologized.
Boortz updated the story yesterday:
Next Monday, July 18th, the students from the Carson Middle School who wrote those letters to Sgt. [Zach] Richardson, along with their teacher, Matthew Lund, their parents and other community leaders, will get their chance to meet and talk with Sgt. Richardson and several of his fellow Marines. The meeting will take place at the Ritz-Carlton Lodge at Reynolds Plantation and will be followed by a lakeside barbecue at the Ritz to show support for Sgt. Richardson, his fellow Marines and the students from Carson Middle School who’s letters meant so much. The Ritz-Carlton Lodge will be providing rooms to the Marines … and having stayed at this particular Ritz-Carlton, let me tell you … these Marines are in for a treat.
I don’t know what eventually happened to the principal. I do know that she caused her school and the Green County School quite a bit of embarrassment. Her disdain for this Marine in particular and for what our armed forces were doing in Iraq in general was obvious. Matthew Lund is no longer teaching at the Carson Middle School. We hope he has found a job at a school that appreciates him and our men and women in uniform.
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