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On 14 June 2016, the unreliable Facebook page American News (a companion to a web site of the same name) published an article reporting that a uniformed veteran was kicked out of his daughters school because other students might find his attire offensive: The Facebook post linked to an article published on 13 September 2014, with a clickbait title: You’ll Never Believe Why This Veteran Was Kicked Out Of His Daughter’s School. It maintained that a security guard told him that his uniform was offensive: American News made no reference to the fact that the story was nearly two years old at the time of its June 2016 publication, leading many to believe that the incident took place recently. A September 2014 Army Times article reported that Lt. Col. Baker was indeed denied entry, but by his own account it was due to the fact that special needs students might find the presence of a uniformed soldier distressing: The item wasn't the first outdated or misleading story shared by American News. Prior false or misleading items shared by that web site included claims that Texans were being forced to pay slavery reparations, Canada banned Beyonce after her Super Bowl 2016 performance, President Obama prohibited a Navy Admiral from distributing Bibles to fellow servicemen, FEMA opened a concentration camp in Arizona, and President Obama declared Islam the official religion of America. This particular claim was a variation on shunned servicemen urban legends, which frequently involve exaggerated or fabricated claims of unkindnesses directed at soldiers and veterans due to purported anti-military sentiment in the United States.
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