Feb 25 2008
It Ain’t Berkeley
High school honors fallen war hero.
Led by Jay Schools Superintendent, Dr. Timothy Long, the Portland schools joined with the community in honoring the heroic accomplishments of the late Sgt. Major Jeffery A. McLochlin. McLochlin was killed July 5, 2006, while serving in the war in Afghanistan.
A Portland native, McLochlin’s widow, Nicole, traveled to the ceremony from her home in Rochester, Ind., to receive the school corporation’s inaugural “Character in Motion” award on behalf of her late husband. She received the award from Maj. Gen. R. Martin Umbarger. Umbarger is the Adjutant General of Indiana, whose primary focus is to lead the Indiana National Guard.
In addition to honoring McLochlin, Umbarger was in town to hand over the keys to the local National Guard Armory to the school corporation. Long says the plan is for the school corporation to move its administrative offices to the facility, which was built in 1976. The move will save the Corporation approximately $200,000.
Plenty of pics at the link. No moonbats perching in trees, riding naked on bicycles, waving giant puppet heads, worshiping Obama’s snot, singing kumbayah, or holding “teach-ins.”
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Oh jeez…it said Portland and I thought Portland?? How the hell did they sneak something this past all those hippies and anarchists?
Leave it to the heartland and middle America to show us what patriotism and respect is all about, as usual.