While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Colleen Houglum, Principal of Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton (government-run) Junior High School, in Dilworth, minnesota suspends Bishop Edens for refusing to stand for the communist Pledge of Allegiance.  Edens does this in protest against three of his classmates having been suspended the day before for their refusals.

       [restored 7/3/2024] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

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References:

Three Minnesota Junior High Students Suspended for Not Standing During Pledge | Fox News
www.foxnews.com/story/2008/05/10/three-minnesota-Junior-high-students-suspended-for-not-standing-during-pledge.html

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