School suspends boy for battlefield cross T-shirt

A student was suspended for wearing the battlefield cross on his T-shirt (Credit: Screen shot Fox News)

A 13-year-old boy, Alan Holmes, was sent home and suspended from Dexter McCarty Middle School in Gresham, Oregon, for wearing a T-shirt decked out with the battlefield cross image.

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Administrators first told the boy to go home and change his shirt, which included an image of the American flag, and a military rifle standing inside an Army boot, topped by a Kevlar with this text: "Standing for those who stood for us." But he refused, Fox News reported.

So the school suspended him.

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"I'm not changing into a Dexter shirt," the boy said to local Fox 12. "They won't let me wear a shirt that supports the people that keep us free, I'm not going to support them."

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The fight over the T-shirt comes on the heels of a mass shooting at Umqua Community College, also in Oregon, that left a teacher and eight students dead.