sometimes i feel like responding to their slavish devotion to the company or emails like this, but this listserv is too interesting to get kicked off of...
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:46:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: michelle steinkruger <rosesforever98 at yahoo.com>
Subject: (unknown)
From: "The Kimbles" To: Subject: Ticket to Iraq Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 10:34:43 -0500
>
> One of my friend's son's serves in the military. He is still
stateside, here
>in California.
> He 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 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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