[PBARC] Outspoken

[E. Glenn Wolf, Jr.]

>From the mother of a military man:

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 and I 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've 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!