Just got this E-Mail...
Don't know how many of you might agree with this.. but I do.
(True story from a proud mother)
As some of you may know, 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.
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."
(Amen!!)
Don't know how many of you might agree with this.. but I do.
(True story from a proud mother)
As some of you may know, 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.
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."
(Amen!!)
