Subject: PROUD AMERICAN

I got this from a friend

 

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 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.