FW: I love this comeback

[James Saffle]

>From: "Saffle SSgt James C" <Saff...@marines.usmc.mil>
>To: <syp...@hotmail.com>
>Subject: FW: I love this comeback
>Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:37:37 -0500
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>From: Haas SSgt Peter J
>Sent: Thu 4/13/2006 9:01 AM
>Subject: FW: I love this comeback
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>can we all say amen to this!!
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> I Love This Comeback
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> 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 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.
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> 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.
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> 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 country men, explaining that she was Iraqi.
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> 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:
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>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 if you had
>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."
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>Everyone within hearing distance cheered!
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