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Cinco de Mayo and the American flag T-shirt uproar

I thinks that the school and the courts were wrong in them telling the students they cannot wear shirts with the American Flag on it on Cinco de mayo. they can wears it any other days of the year but now are for bidden from wearing it on one day? That is wrong.


First and the fore most this is America and not the Mexico. What is the next? will they takes down the American flag and hang the Mexican one instead on the flag pole?

Cinco de mayo was started in the America and is not a holidays in the Mexico. It is a minor holiday at the best and only selebrates in Pueba and it is not the national holiday in Mexico.

My childs go to the Livermore schools and they are proud to wears the American flag and colors and will do that on the Monday to show that they are the first Americans and only by our ansestory are they the Mexican also. I hopes that you too will sends your childs to school on Monday wearing the American flag or carry a small American flags.

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