THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, July 7, 2011
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WHAT KIND OF AMERICAN CITIZEN SAYS NOTHING - WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN IS NOT AN OPTION
As I have
by Niel Young Advocates Columnist
mentioned s e v e r a l t ime s t o one of my radio col- leagues; I have tried to impress upon you that while y ou a r e
still young, I am not. Wait- ing for something to hap- pen is not an option. We must act now. We cannot sit and wait. Our coun- try’s future is now! How many brave Ameri-
cans have given their lives over nearly 300 years to keep our land, the people free, and the opportunity to better one’s self? And just this past Monday we celebrated across the nation for those reasons! Did you at anytime quietly think of how the “home of the brave, land of the free”, has changed since you were 14 or 20 or may- be even, 50? WHAT KIND OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN
away from you. There are groups of folks who want to take your right to think for yourself and draw your own conclusions. There are those who want to take your morals away and get down in the gutter with them!
Grandson Connor Young and his Dad (Chris) had an opportunity to visit with former Laconia High standout athlete Steve Stetson while Connor was attending a college football prospect camp for high school seniors at Yale. Stetson, coach at Hamilton College was there taking notes. Coach Stetson, Connor, and his Dad Chris spent some “quality time” together. Stetson, pictured with Connor, is remembered for quarterbacking Dartmouth in a win against Cornell 1971. Playing for Cornell that day NCAA record breaker and Heisman Trophy runner-up Ed Marinaro, who later played for the Minnesota Vikings and was a TV actor in Hill Street Blues.
SITS THERE AND SAYS NOHTING? It’s not just Barack Hussein Obama taking your rights
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**************** Where did the PATRI- OTISM and PRIDE for America go? Ken Gor- rell sent this info - and his comment: ‘Another good Independence Day topic. Reading the stu- dents’ quotes on citizen- ship made me want to put (you fill in the blank). Pub- lic schools are failing Job #1. Uncorrected, the na- tion can’t survive.” A couple of paragraphs
from American Amne- sia
hoover.org 7/1: “The New York Times head- line from May could not have been more compel-
ling: “Failing grades on civics exam called a ‘cri- sis.’“ The accompanying story reported bleak news from the latest National Assessment of Student Progress (widely known as the ‘nation’s report card’). Among our present crop of high school seniors, only one in four scored at least ‘proficient’ in knowl- edge of U. S. citizenship. Of all the academic sub- jects tested, civics and the closely linked subject of history came in last: “a smaller proportion of fourth and eighth graders demonstrated proficien- cy in civics than in any other subject the federal government has tested since 2005, except his- tory, American students’ worst subject.” And this: “Perhaps this
important story was large- ly ignored because it was See ADVOCATES on 38
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