Posted on 10/16/2017 11:20:14 PM PDT by Innovative
Delta has their own Honor Guard at Atlanta to meet every deceased military when it lands. It is a very big thing. Other parts of the Delta Team have to cover for the person when they leave to go be part of the ceremony. The National VFW gave Delta an award this year in New Orleans for their dedication to this effort.
Our National Anthem is a celebration - you might as well sing "Happy Birthday" at a funeral.
Agreed. It sounds like this woman was looking for a Look At Meeee video she could post on %@&*! Facebook, one way or another. Facebook is such a cancer on humanity.
So everyone gets to sing a song of their choice on an airline now? Isnt that special. The flight attendant was right.
Agreed. If the person is so freaking offended by the National Anthem, then what the heck are they doing in this country to begin with?
Something tells me that if the passengers wanted to ‘take a knee’ before getting off the plane - that would have been JUST FINE.
I recently flew on Delta. I was highly offended by their pro homosexual “pride” advertisement on the seatback screen
I recently flew on Delta. I was highly offended by their pro homosexual “pride” advertisement on the seatback screen
I would disagree.
While listening to the National Anthem under the appropriate circumstances is a powerful and wonderful thing, it is my opinion it simply isn’t an appropriate circumstance.
I think a dignified and respectful silence is best in that situation.
Just my 2 cents.
Your post pretty much sums it up. The flight attendant is wrong and deserves ridicule for such an asinine statement, and should have just said that it was felt to be inappropriate. That would have sufficed.
While the FA was wrong in the reason she allegedly gave to the Dr. Gaudry, there is a decorum and protocol to be followed as a fallen service member is taken “home” or burial – it is about the solemnity and dignity of the transporting of the fallen and demands respectful silence with hats off, hands on hearts, heads bowed, military and former military members saluting, all in respect for the fallen, and for the family and for the military member(s) accompanying the body. It is not the time to break out in song, doing the “flash mob thing” even if the song is the National Anthem, even if the intentions are, well - well-intentioned.
Likewise, it would also not be appropriate for those gathered to watch the changing of the guard at Arlington National Cemetery to break out in singing the National Anthem (or for that matter, taking a knee) either just because they “feel” moved to do so and want to be part of it. I’ve been there twice and would never think to break the silence and solemnity of the ceremony. And the transport of a fallen soldier is really no different. It is the time to pay respect and not break into song and make it about “me”.
If any of you haven’t yet, watch the movie “Taking Chance”. It is based on real-life events, Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort officer who accompanies the body of 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming. It is extremely well done, non-political and Keven Bacon is superb as Lt. Col. Michael Strob and I watch it every Memorial Day and every time, I cry.
It shows the how the military, in the case the Marine Corps, follows a strict protocol that honors the fallen, escorting the body from the time he lands in Dover AFB and his body is respectfully prepared for burial by the military mortuary, and all the way, along the many flights and transports then finally home to his family and for burial. It also shows how other people are moved by Chance’s and Lt. Col. Strobl’s journey home along the way. And no one breaks out in song.
ow, precisely, is singing the
national Anthem disrespectful?
The stewardess was disrespectful.
The days of coddling America-haters and dirty foreigners is over! Traitors must be sought out and punished. They are a cancer on the American body.
Big talk from a wind bag. You have no more rights than anyone else. You think being a vet gives you “special” rights? I’m a vet and vets like you make me sick thinking you have special rights. Try me windbag, if you are a vet.
Agreed on all counts. Saw the movie...appreciated it.
However well intentioned the woman, it feels all wrong to sing the National Anthem. If there were family members on the plane, it would be an intrusion, I feel.
Rule of thumb: It it feels out of place or context, it often is.
Singing on the train seems ok -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-WVK_SxkXI
Due South episode you’ll love
Try me if I am a vet? Truly? My blood, sweat and tears at PI says yup a vet. I think you have me mistaken. You think I’m conferring special rights? Not in the least. I’m stating fact. Yes if someone attempts to stop me from singing The National Anthem for the fallen and especially if I make that intention known yes they will end up in an emergency room. See I’m not a tubby that sits as a keyboard warrior all day. I love my body and I’m 5’ 10” 220 I’m still just as lean and mean.
I assure you it isn’t wind
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