Memorable game and year
Wow, flashback time! Behind Jerry LeVias and Michael Granberry in the photo on Page 1 of Friday’s Metro section is a reproduction of, I presume, a program for the Oct. 11, 1963, football game between SMU and Navy at the Cotton Bowl. I was fortunate to attend, with my parents, the most memorable football game of my life.
Final play of the game, which SMU led by four, was Roger Staubach’s pass, which hit his receiver in the gut in the north end zone. He could not haul it in. Navy suffered its only loss of the regular season but went on to the National Championship game versus Texas in the Cotton Bowl game.
But between those two games, also here in Dallas, occurred the singular event of my lifetime — the death of John F. Kennedy. I am among those who believe that America changed at that moment.
Lynn Adams, Garland
Girl’s suspension is wrong
Re: “A telling example — A Lewisville ISD student believed she heard a threat to school safety and told others. Then she was suspended,” Sunday news story.
I am appalled at the behavior of the Lewisville Lakeview Middle School administration. To suspend the young teenage girl and put her in alternative school for the rest of eighth grade because she told her friends on a group chat before telling her mother that she overheard another student tell his friends “not to come to school tomorrow” is unbelievable.
It seems obvious that the school administration was angry because they had to deal with parents calling in before they were aware of the threat. For the student who said to “not come to school tomorrow” to think “that it was funny,” well I wish him luck when he tries that on TSA in a few years. They will not find it funny at all, and he will probably find himself arrested.
I want to send kudos to the mom of the young teen for fighting for her daughter. I’m sorry it happened to the young lady and that she had to miss school. If this is what happens when she reports a threat, I can…
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