My Troops.
 

A Randome Email from a Freind of Mine!






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 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 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" Everyone within hearing distance cheered!



Never forget Our Men and Women Over There! They are Our Children.:cool: Our Future. The Next Generation.My Troops

very cool

Ha Ha , that's great! I like the part where he says that when he is off base people are nice to him and shake his hand and stuff. I guess that is, from what I hear from others, quite common but I've never experienced it. I always get the crazy ones coming up to me whenever I am in uniform.

Well, if We get in to a War, Call a Postman/Person, they wear Uniforms!

These are Our Sons/Daughters, ETC.

Be respectful or be gone! Their Lives are precious to all of us!:)

I was in DFW when a bunch of the first soldiers to come home arrived and the whole airport went crazy...it was pretty neat.

Dallas/Fort Worth has a program that arranges for hundreds of local citizens to meet and greet U.S. Soldiers coming home for their two week R&R. its only one of two airports to do this. the other one is Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport i believe.

I make a point of thanking those who are serving in the military for all they have done to protect our freedom. Some people are opposed to this war, but isn't great to live in a country where you can speak your opinions without worrying about getting in trouble?

Take a minute and thank a serviceman or woman. They don't hear it enough.

Brother;
Bangor Maine has a Major Welcome Home organization as it is one of the first airports Military Transports land in the USA.
http://www.flybangor.com/troopgreetings.html

They met us when we came home. Very cool to see and definately a nice warm and fuzzy :) Our American airliner was also decorated in red white and blue inside and the pilot was making comments the whole way home about how excited he was to be bring us home and to sit back, relax and enjoy the ride...

I was up in Bangor area, on holiday, when the LA Troops came home to return to the mess in their home city and state. I to this day feel bad that I learned of their arrival too late to get to airport. Among other matters, they served side by side with NY troops.

And Princess-Thank You.

You're welcome!!!

This happened in Texas didn’t it?

This may or may not have happened:
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/lapelpin.asp

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors...t-put-down.htm

Drunk posting at its finest.