Dr. Eowyn posted: "Todd Starnes reports for FoxNews, Dec. 25, 2013, that
fourth-grader Gracie Brown was among the boys and girls at Grace Academy in
Prosper, Tex., who had spent most of last Friday making homemade Christmas
cards for bedridden veterans at the VA hospital in" Respond to this post
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Todd Starnes reports for
FoxNews<http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/12/25/va-hospital-refuses-to-accept-merry-christmas-cards/>,
Dec. 25, 2013, that fourth-grader Gracie Brown was among the boys and girls
at Grace Academy in Prosper, Tex., who had spent most of last Friday making
homemade Christmas cards for bedridden veterans at the VA hospital in
Dallas.
Little Gracie drew an American flag on her card, together with the words
"Merry Christmas. Thank you for your service."
[image: VA banned this Merry Christmas
card]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/va-banned-this-merry-christmas-card.jpg>
Gracie was proud of her card. She told
MyFoxDFW.com<http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/24293539/students-parents-upset-that-religious-christmas-cards-wont-go-to-north-texas-veterans>
that
she had hoped it would make the day of a sick veteran at the hospital
“because their family might live far away, and they might not have somebody
to celebrate Christmas with. I’d like them to know they’ve not been
forgotten and somebody wanted to say thank you."
But the bedridden veterans at the VA hospital will never get to see
Gracie’s card. Nor will they see the cards made by 51 other students.
That’s because the *Christmas cards violate VA policy*.
On Monday morning the boys and girls were planning on hand delivering the
cards to the wounded veterans. Susan Chapman, a math teacher at the academy
who's married to a veteran and volunteers with the American Legion and
other veterans' organizations, called the hospital to make final
arrangements and that’s when she learned there was a problem.
Chapman said, "I told him [an official at the VA hospital] my students made
cards, we'd like to bring them down for the veterans. And he said, 'That's
great. We're thrilled to have them, except the only thing is, *we can't
accept anything that says ‘Merry Christmas' or ‘God bless you' or any
scriptural references* because of all the red tape.'"
A VA official quoted the policy which is in* the Veterans Health
Administration handbook:*
*"In order to be respectful of our veterans' religious beliefs, all donated
holiday cards are reviewed by a multi-disciplinary team of staff led by
chaplaincy services and determined if they are appropriate (non-religious)
to freely distribute to patients. We regret this process was not fully
explained to this group and apologize for any misunderstanding."*
Andrea Brown, Gracie’s mom, was dumbfounded by the news. She told
MyFoxDFW.com, “This wasn’t the country I grew up n, when you couldn’t say
‘Merry Christmas,’ you couldn’t say ‘God bless you’ or reference any
scripture.” She said the boys and girls were heartbroken that the military
personnel would not be able to receive their cards: "They couldn't believe
the people that these people they wanted to honor weren't going to get the
chance to see what they had done."
Hiram Sasser, director of litigation for Liberty Institute, said it was a
new low “even for the Scrooges and Grinches at the VA. Does the VA have no
shame? Targeting the benevolent work of little children for censorship is
disgusting. Do the Grinches in the administration of the VA really believe
our bravest warriors need protection from the heartfelt well wishes of
small children saying Merry Christmas?"
See also:
- “U.S. Air Force Academy makes God
optional<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2013/10/30/u-s-air-force-academy-makes-god-optional/>,”
Oct. 30, 2013.
- “U.S. Army tells soldiers Christians and Tea Party are
terrorists<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2013/10/24/u-s-army-tells-soldiers-christians-and-tea-party-are-terrorists/>,”
Oct. 24, 2013.
- “U.S. military priests threatened with arrest for celebrating Mass
voluntarily without
pay<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2013/10/05/u-s-military-priests-threatened-with-arrest-for-celebrating-mass-voluntarily-without-pay/>,”
Oct. 5, 2013.
- “Obama military invites drag queens to perform on air
base<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/08/19/obama-military-invites-drag-queens-to-perform-on-air-base/>,”
Aug. 19, 2013.
- “Military Censors Christian
Chaplain<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/military-censors-christian-chaplain-2-rolls-of-duct-tape-recommended/>,”
July 26, 2013.
- “Obama military really is persecuting
Christians<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/obama-military-really-is-persecuting-christians/>,”
July 15, 2013.
- “Pentagon may court martial soldiers for sharing their Christian
faith<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/pentagon-may-court-martial-soldiers-for-sharing-their-christian-faith/>,”
May 1, 2013.
- “Psychiatrist confirms Obama’s plan to confiscate guns from military
vets<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/psychiatrist-confirms-obamas-plan-to-confiscate-guns-from-military-vets/>,”
April 15, 2013.
- “President Lucifer’s new terrorist
list<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/president-lucifers-new-terrorist-list/>,”
(US military has Christians as No. 1 terrorist threat), April 5, 2013.
H/t Don Hank
*~Eowyn*
*Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/>* | December
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