Posted by 3Dee on November 15, 2010, 8:54 pm, in reply to "Golden Coral"
Well I have been to a couple human rights demonstrations and as much as it is good to get into the hippie love (not anti-military, just cause related hippie love) it still doesn't beat the experience of being at an airport and a flight full of troops come home.
In this case they let families past security. Now I might joke about the former scenario, and yes there is a spirit of bonding that happens at immigration rallies, anti nuclear proliferation rallies and the such.
But nothing, and I mean nothing beats that experience of sitting in an airplane terminal.
For the time it takes for that plane to unload, to hell with the differences in views and the differences in anything.
As soldiers exit the plane, people everywhere and I mean everywhere start applauding, and you bet I will applaud too. People working in the McDonalds across the way clap, people pushing disabled passengers clap (if they aren't rushing the passenger) and the person in the wheelchairs clap.
I cannot keep from crying when the soldier hoists up his kid.
All the craziness of our lives and the lives of everyone in the airport comes to a halt.
Now that was dramatized once in a Budweiser commercial. One time while I was waiting for a flight down at DFW it happened in real time. DFW is a major hub and some soldiers were at the point of homecoming, some had a homecoming in another city. But believe me, there is nothing like it. I will remember that the rest of my life.
Thank you all who served. And what an outrage that many are now homeless and some not getting the care they need and others reverting to food stamps. I am not diminishing the work of the soldiers here, but anyone who has put their life on the line like this ought to be cared for, no questions asked, especially for things encountered in service. We have a long way to go with our civil service as well. Think of what goes in the lungs of a firefighter or is lobbed in the direction of a police officer.
on November 15, 2010, 8:54 pm, in reply to "