Thursday, May 29, 2008
My husband recently told me a wonderful story. He was sitting in the Atlanta airport waiting for his flight home to Birmingham after a business trip. He noticed a man and woman who appeared to be in their sixties. A United States Marine walked by in full uniform and the man said " Soldier! Thank you for your service". It caught my husbands attention and gave him butterflies in his stomach. A second soldier passed by a few minutes later and the man called out to him, sort of loudly and said the same thing " Thank You Soldier". The man than turned to his wife and said " Ya know what would be great honey?" " I should have bracelets made that read "Thank You" and hand them out to every military person I see."
What if we all said "thank you"? Whether we agree with the war or not, we owe our thanks to these men and women. Imagine the feeling those soldiers experience when we extend our gratitude for their service.
Hmmmm.....
2 comments:
Aww that's so great of the older couple! When we lived in Iceland we were at dinner at a local restaurant with our friends and our familes (there were 10 of us). There were lots of Americans in town because they were there shooting Clint Eastwood's film Flags of Our Father. Any how we were finishing up dinner and asked for our check and the waitress informed us that an anonymous man had paid $50 on each of our bills, he asked the waitress if we were military (the haircuts probably gave them away) and when she said yes, he made that awesome gesture. We have no idea who the man was but were touched beyond belief that someone would do something so kind for our families!
I definetly agree!!! What a diffence a few simple words can make.
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