Houston A.W. Knight: You have to watch this!

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

You have to watch this!

Hugs and

8 comments:

Sharon K. Mayhew said...: I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving...full of great food and family/friend fun. :D; November 23, 2011 1:04 AM
Oscar said...: Very nice!; November 23, 2011 12:37 PM
elaing8 said...: I can't gt the viseo to work.I'll try later.

Happy Thanksgiving Hawk.; November 23, 2011 6:08 PM
Shauna said...: Happy Thanksgiving from http://www.trying2staycalm.com/; November 24, 2011 11:09 AM
Houston A.W. Knight said...: Sharon! HUGS!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving to you too sweetie! So Glad you stopped by for a visit...you've been missed!

Cyber hugs
Hawk; November 24, 2011 11:49 AM
Houston A.W. Knight said...: Oscar!!! BIG CYBER HUGS!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING handsome!

I'm so glad you watched the clip it sure does remind us all why we're here and what we have to be grateful for!

Have a wonderful holiday Oscar!

Hugs
Hawk; November 24, 2011 11:54 AM
Houston A.W. Knight said...: Hey Sweet Elaing...it's soooo pretty what they show I hope you can get it to work...if not let me know I'll send you a link so you can see it...

Thanks for the holiday wish Sweetie!

I've been cooking up a storm...I made corn bread stuffing with bacon and a touch of maple. I made regular stuffing, mash potatoes, pea, parsnips with carrots, gravey, cranberry sauce, Pumpkin Pie and fruit bars...

I hope hubby's hungry 'cuz I'm too pooped to eat. But I'll have fun watching him enjoy it. I'm sure me little Zeus will try to get his share of the turkey...the devil!

;-)
Hugs
Hawk; November 24, 2011 11:59 AM
Houston A.W. Knight said...: Shauna,

Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for coming by...I hope you'll join us and come by often...I love to hear my viewer's comments!

I stopped by both of your blog and they're awesome! I'll be back there to visit!

Hawk; November 24, 2011 12:01 PM

Something to REMEMBER:

Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school 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 out of her classroom. When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks. Ms. Cothren, where're our desks?' She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.' They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.' 'No,' she said. 'Maybe it's our behavior.' She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.' And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom. By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in Ms. Cothren's classroom to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room. The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the deskless 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 show you.' At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it. Twenty-seven U.S. Veterans, all in uniforms, 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. 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. 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 to get an education. Don't ever forget it.' By the way, this is a true story. And this teacher was awarded Teacher of the Year for the state of Arkansas in 2006. Please consider telling others about this message...tell them to come here to read and ponder then pass along, so none of us will ever forget that the freedoms we have in this great country were earned by U. S. Veterans.

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