Post by sandsman1 on Aug 24, 2006 13:52:38 GMT -5
This is a true story from a gal over at Ashland regarding her son.
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>OH heck YEAH!
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>Love This Comeback
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>One of my 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.
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>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.
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>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."
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>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:
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>"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 there
>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."
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>Everyone within hearing distance cheered!
