Remember that story about a Rhode Island boy who was informed by his school that he couldn’t wear his hat with toy soldiers glued on to it because they held tiny plastic guns (hard to believe that a toy soldier would carry a gun, eh)? Well, the story takes a trip down Awesomeness Road
A Rhode Island boy whose school banned a hat he made because the toy soldiers on it carried tiny guns was awarded a medal on Friday for his patriotic efforts.
Lt. Gen. Reginald Centracchio, the retired head of the Rhode Island National Guard, gave 8-year-old David Morales a medal called a challenge coin during an appearance on WPRO-AM’s John DePetro show.
Centracchio said the second-grader should be thanked for recognizing veterans and soldiers.
“You did nothing wrong, and you did an outstanding job,” he said. “We can only hope that kids of your caliber will continue to defend this country.”
Centracchio also gave David a certificate that allows him to call himself a brigadier general.
Interestingly, and, a hearty “good for you!”, the ACLU of Rhode Island, told the school district that the rules were unconstitutional, as being against free speech, though, technically, the rule can’t, because Congress passed no law. It certainly violates the spirit of the 1s and 2nd Amendments, though.
To add a little humor, the WP spell checker keeps telling me that Rhode is not a word.
Political Correctness run amok. This has been happening for 20 years even before billy boy.
I recognize those toys they are made in Japan
Japan isn’t sinking in rising oceans either, ‘lil Lying johnnie.
Oh hevaens- toys made in Japan? Horror of horrors.
Listen Johnny, I am with ya on one point, that we need to reinvent our manufacturing and industrial ages here in the USA.
But on the other hand, every stinkin toy I played with as a kid, pretty much came from Japan. I know I’m old, but I don’t think that the cheap little toys I/we played with and the ones that kids buy in dollar stores today, are all that different.
Oh, and all little toy soldiers MUST carry a weapon…or they’d be toy boyscouts instead.