Posted on 12/26/2010 8:10:11 PM PST by reprobate
I always have trouble reaching the end of this story...for some reason, my allergies act up and I can’t see clearly.
God Bless our brave men and women.
Thank you for posting this story.
It isn’t too often that something gets me choked up this quick, but the captain’s announcement and the response from passengers just caught me off guard. Wow!
This story is defective: near the end it gets all blurry.
Blurry monitor syndrome.
Thanks for the post. It helps put things in perspective and restore faith in humanity.
I wondered about the logistics of the family, because this would imply that they went to an airport far from Virginia to meet up with the casket and yet somehow missed doing so before both casket and family had to go on the flight. I can see why the family would be miffed — can you say snafu? Kudos squared for this airline captain and the flight controllers who bent over backward to solve the problem.
Great post. I fly often and have been on a plane with an escorted soldier, but never the family. Each time I have experienced this, the captain has asked that everyone stay seated until the escort disembarks. Thank yous and God Bless Yous from the other passengers is common. I have watched from the gate window the removal of the casket. Always a very moving experience. The Kevin Bacon movie Taking Chance appears very accurate to me.
Thanks for sharing that story.
Mind posting the full email from your unidentified friend containing the unidentified source URL linking to an unidentified website linking to another unidentified website which cannot identify the person who provided the story?
If you are going to post a story - if it’s posted as FACT, please provide the source. If it is posted as a FICTION, please do the same providing an author.
Else, you are promoting spam.
=8-)
Thank you for sharing that. Funny, my computer screen got all blurry as well......
THX MUCH.
MAY GOD BE WITH EACH FAMILY MEMBER.
With some stories, it’s true that we want them verified. But this one is not shocking — it probably happens all the time, and it’s good enough for me. Where’d I put that kleenex?
Oh man is that ever the truth.
Was posted here last year, and has been posted at other forums as well. It’s old...
I don’t mind posting stories - so long as NON-FICTION is presented as NON-FICTION and crediting the original source and FICTION is presented as FICTION and crediting the author by name.
To pass as NON-FICTION what is likely a fictional piece describing roughly was does happen nowadys is disrespectful and insulting to those who actually experience one or more of the events noted.
It’s not necessary either - if you have a real story to tell - do so - there are lots of willing eyes and ears here on FreeRepublic.
=8-)
Here’s the original story:
http://acaptainslog.blogspot.com/2008/07/fallen-soldier_04.html
On the left of the page there’s even a follow-up.
Exactly...
Now go back and read carefully...the original and the followups:
1. In the original he words his introduction such that he blends into the beginning of the story making it seem to a quick reader that HE was the captain in the story. Far down in the comments when directly asked, no reply.
2. In his follow-ups - both of ‘em - he once again blends his introduction into the information being posted making it appear to a quick reader that he is IN the story or the organizations activites and history.
Careful reading however - slowing down - not quite.
He still does not come right out and declare in one formal sentence that he was the captain in the original post - or a captain flying a plane for the service described provide “remains” escort duties.
I admire great writing skills and storytelling - but I’d appreciate it if he’d come right out and declare factually what his role is in the original and the follow-up posts.
=8-)
Regardless of what Snopes might say on the subject, every word of the pilot’s account, and the cooperation he received when they landed, sounded spot on to me. The reason I am so confident of this is because of a movie that HBO did about a year ago, based on a true story. It stars Kevin Bacon as a Marine Colonel, a paper shuffler in a staffing duty slot, who out of guilt feelings about HIS cushy job, volunteered to escort a Fallen from the time the remains left the morgue at Dover AFB, to final interment in Montana. I was blown away by the QUALITY of this story and the movie, and the UTMOST RESPECT given to the Fallen at EVERY turn, not only by the Military, but also the reverence shown by the “flying public” and the various airlines personnel. Words do not suffice to convey how strongly I recommend that everyone view this movie if they haven’t seen it heretofore. The title is: “TAKING CHANCE” and it stars Kevin Bacon as the Marine Colonel and Tom Wopat of Dukes of Hazzard fame as the father of the Fallen.
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