An Inclusive Litany

3/27/02

Ten-year-old Hallie Whatley was suspended from the Webster Elementary School in Webster, Florida, following an otherwise playful Civil War reenactment in which, according to the Lake City Daily Commercial, she "designating herself a Confederate soldier, ... picked up an Oak leaf and pointed it like a gun at the other girl, the so-called 'Yankee soldier,' " and threatened to kill her.