| One of my
friend's sons serves in the military. He is still
stateside, here in California. He called me yesterday to let me
know how warm and welcoming people were to him, and his troops,
everywhere he goes, telling me how people shake their hands, and
thank them for being willing to serve, and fight, for not only
our own freedoms but so that others may have them also. |
| But he also told me about an incident in the grocery store he
stopped at yesterday, on his way home from the base. He said
that ahead of several people in front of him stood a woman
dressed in a burkha. |
| He said when she got to the cashier she loudly remarked about
the U.S. flag lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock. The
cashier reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly," Yes,
I always wear it and probably always will." |
| The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was
going to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was
Iraqi. A gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward,
putting his arm around my son's shoulders, and nodding towards
my son, said in a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi woman: |
| "Lady, hundreds of thousands of men and women like this young
man have fought and died so that YOU could stand here, in MY
country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR
countrymen. It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in
YOUR own country, we wouldn't need to be here today. But, hey,
if you have now learned how to speak out so loudly and clearly,
I'll gladly buy you a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq so
you can straighten out the mess in YOUR country that you are
obviously here in MY country to avoid." |
| Everyone within hearing distance cheered! |
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