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 US 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."
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 there today. But, hey, if you have now
learned how to speak out so loudly and clearly I'll gladly pay your way
back to Iraq so you can straighten out the mess you are obviously here to avoid."
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