Alan Holmes is an average, 13-year-old American student who does his best in class, keeps up with his friends, and respects the sacrifices of the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers who have died in order to make the United States of America the greatest country in the history of the world.
Alan has a special place in his heart for anyone in our nation's military, his older brother is a Marine and he wants to do everything he can to support our troops.
So on a normal day, Alan decided to wear one of the most offensive shirts anyone could ever dream of wearing in their entire lives: a gray shirt with the obscene words, "Standing for those who stood for us" along with the violent image of boots with a rifle in them with the fallen soldier's helmet resting on the butt of the gun — the battlefield cross for fallen soldiers.
The school officials declared that given the nation's recent school attacks, this image was too violent, even though it's an image that has circulated amongst anyone who has respected soldiers for hundreds of years. The "cross" even dates back to before guns even existed, where the friends of the fallen would stick their comrades swords in the ground.
The PC vice principal demanded that Alan wear a different shirt, but he refused, "to me it stands for a memorial for the fallen soldiers who have died fighting for us and our freedom," Alan said.
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