A lesson in irony. Let's decide the fate of thousands of people in our country. While we are doing it, watch them fight and die in a war with no purpose, representing our country.Last week my third grade class won a pizza party for donating the most cans to the food pantry. This from a one of the poorest neighborhood schools in the district.
We won because one of my students' older brother, (home for two weeks from Iraq) brought in a huge box of cans.
Yesterday when we talked about Memorial Day and what is means, she began to cry.
You see, she has TWO brothers in Iraq fighting this war. It's not about faceless men -in our classroom. It is about someone we love, her two brothers and her family.
Each day she carried this worry with her, when she hears about men dying in Iraq.
Her parents are US citizens. But barely.
They still have family and land in Mexico.
As our Congress takes up this immigration bill I want them to think about Gladys and her two brothers in Iraq, not some faceless, stereotypical image of Mexican immigrants they want to shoot down at the border.
Welcome Hispanics and thank-you for what you do for our country.
