[Grovenet] a great come back, a text of another kind

[Alan L Domenghini]

 This one has been floating around for a while, however, I thought it
would not hurt to float it around some more. 

~alan~ 

Great come back. 
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 his hearing distance cheered! IF  YOU AGREE____ Pass
this on to all your proud American friends. I just did.

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