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Hurley High School made the WaPo!
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Date: August 22, 2015 12:01PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/22/why-a-virginia-principal-refuses-to-take-down-her-schools-confederate-flags/?tid=pm_national_pop_b
Oh, Hurley. As someone who grew up near (let's say within 50 miles) Hurley, competed against them often in high school events, and been to the school and "The Cliff" many times, I have to ask is anyone surprised?
Confederate flag aside, the saying always was "if Buchanan County is the ass of America, Hurley is the hole."
And I hate to nit-pick, but they need a history lesson as the Scotch-Irish populated Appalachias were practically Nothern sympathizers and mostly were isolated from and indifferent about the Civil War.
Oh, Hurley. As someone who grew up near (let's say within 50 miles) Hurley, competed against them often in high school events, and been to the school and "The Cliff" many times, I have to ask is anyone surprised?
Confederate flag aside, the saying always was "if Buchanan County is the ass of America, Hurley is the hole."
And I hate to nit-pick, but they need a history lesson as the Scotch-Irish populated Appalachias were practically Nothern sympathizers and mostly were isolated from and indifferent about the Civil War.