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From: tuntalkr
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:16 AM
Subject: [CFL] SOUNDS GOOD TOO ME!!!
Love This Comeback
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!
IF YOU AGREE Pass this on to all your proud American friends.
I just did.
“A true way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than the
others.” —Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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April and Miss Flurrie
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