[antimedia] antimedia: Don't know if this story is true or not....

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Posted by antimedia:
 Don't know if this story is true or not....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1147751066.shtml


   ....but I liked it.

     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 his hearing distance cheered!

   I'm cheering too.