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Disabled Purple Heart veteran, embarassed at local business.
adventures of a broken soldier ^ | 4/3/13 | Eddie Bryant

Posted on 04/03/2013 6:27:36 PM PDT by Nachum

I am a disabled combat veteran. I served in Iraq and worked in Afghanistan. I took an IED because my country asked me too, and I was injured by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. I have a Purple Heart and an ARCOM with Valor. I fully expect to be treated differently when I am visiting another country - when I am in America I expect equality and toleration; but what I experienced today is something that I never would have thought I'd have to go through in my own country. The country I fought for!

I am a skydiver with around 300 jumps under my belt. I've done jumps from 30,000 feet, helicopters, hot air balloons, wingsuit skydives and so forth. So with that being said I travel around doing this sport quite a bit. Today was my second time at a dropzone called "Florida Skydiving Center / Skydive Lake Wales".

Coincidentally there are soldiers from the country of Qatar being trained there.

The picture is of the tattoo I have. Here is the definition of said tattoo: "Kafir (Arabic: كافر‎ kāfir, plural كفّار kuffār) is an Arabic term used in an Islamic doctrinal sense, usually translated as "unbeliever," "disbeliever," or "infidel." The term refers to a person who rejects God or who hides, denies, or covers the "truth." The Muslim's from Qatar saw that tattoo and complained to the dropzone. Once they did so I was called to the back office and asked to cover it up by the OWNER. Not that I would, but its 80 something degrees here today, and that would be an unreasonable request. After I told her that I had no pants to cover it up she told me that she has DUCT TAPE that I can use to cover it.

(Excerpt) Read more at adventuresofabrokensoldier.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: disabled; heart; infidel; kafir; purple; veteran
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To: Nachum

Disgusting. God (the True God) bless you sir.


21 posted on 04/03/2013 6:58:42 PM PDT by DManA
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To: pepsionice
I guess it’s all personal taste or the desire to take things to the limit...but frankly, I’m just not buying into this business.

I inwardly cringe when I accidentally mark myself with my ink pen. Whatever happened to the teaching that your body is your Holy Temple not to be defiled?

22 posted on 04/03/2013 7:02:29 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: I cannot think of a name

Very simple, America has the best Gravity in the World.

Other Gravity pales in comparison to OUR Gravity.


23 posted on 04/03/2013 7:02:56 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Compliance with Tyranny is Treason...)
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To: Nachum
What's wrong with this country?

I don't know. I'd guess a conglomeration of those who blame a soldiers tattoos for mistreatment, Or those who think its ok because this (private) companies greed is the only explanation required.

I see the big picture Nachum. I'll drop them a note, though I am doubtful they care. In fact I know they won't because of the reasons above. And that may be what's wrong with this country - but that sure as heck is not what's wrong with me.

Perhaps one person will never make a difference in these situations. But that is not the point, is it?

24 posted on 04/03/2013 7:06:31 PM PDT by KittenClaws (You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Zhang Fei

re:post 14. Recently a major commercial diving school in Florida was training some some of them (Qatar) in some very advanced diving techniques.


25 posted on 04/03/2013 7:10:41 PM PDT by Captain7seas (Fire Jane Lubchenco and John Pistole.)
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To: Nachum
quote: “Their name for us was ‘Infidel’. We were in the Korengal Valley, in eastern Afghanistan, and the US military could listen in on enemy radio communications in the area. ‘The infidel are at their base.’ Sometimes they called us much worse things, but ‘infidel’ was thier favourite, and after a while the men began to tattoo the word in huge letters across their chests. “

“Infidel” the book of the Sky Soldier Heroes of “Restrepo” , the tiny firebase in the Korengal - by prizewinning photojournalist, Tim Hetherington - later killed by Obungles, in his illegal war in Libia. RIP\, Tim. (He was not an American press member. He saw what was really going on and was going back to England and report it - while our coward press memebers were hauled together and told to keep their mouths shut. Tim took a direct morter round just hours before he was due to board ship.

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/infidel-tim-hetherington/story?id=11636074

One day, Obungles and gang must pay for all their evil. It’s the Law of the Universe.

26 posted on 04/03/2013 7:12:22 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: Kickass Conservative
 

Very simple, America has the best Gravity in the World.

Other Gravity pales in comparison to OUR Gravity.

Obey gravity. It's the law.

27 posted on 04/03/2013 7:26:29 PM PDT by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: Nachum; All

My email to them:

“Beter an “INFIDEL” than ...a piece of clueless, disrepectful scum.

You dishonored one of our heroes - a Sky Soldier with a purple heart - because foreigners - who CALL our soldiers “Infidel”, didn’t like it.

Look at this - THIS is why that hero had that little tatoo on his leg - you sniveling jackasses.

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/infidel-tim-hetherington/story?id=11636074

RIP, Tim

You owe that Sky Soldier - and all our soldiers - a big apology. TRaitorous scum -

signed, (****)- a great-grandmother - old enough to remember when our soldiers were respected and one would NEVER have been so treated.

and grandmother of one of the Korengal “INFIDELS”.

Watch the award winning movie “RESTREPO” - get a clue. And hang your head in shame.


28 posted on 04/03/2013 7:27:18 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: Nachum

Should have put the duct tape over the eyes of the muzzies if they were offended by what they saw


29 posted on 04/03/2013 7:30:19 PM PDT by Figment
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To: zeugma

>”Obey gravity. It’s the law”< Until you land...


30 posted on 04/03/2013 7:31:18 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Compliance with Tyranny is Treason...)
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To: omega4179; All

you say - “This is the real world he could not wear a muslims suck tattoo in a major corporation either.”

He would in the ‘real world’ our country used to be.

It’s people who accept this crap with a shrug that is killing our country.

Why don’t you read up on WHY those Sky Soldiers call themselves “INFIDELS”?

Try looking at Time Hetherington’s (RIP, Tim) book “INFIDEL” - and watch the movie “RESTREPO”.

These heroes have earned the right. It was the TALLIES who called them INFIDELS in the first place. Learn about it -

NO excuse, least of all money, to treat a purple heart soldier as scum to defend the delicate sensibilities of foreign babarians.


31 posted on 04/03/2013 7:35:32 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: knarf; All
A sanscrit word of defiance that has nothing toi do with being American just doesn't make sense Whatever happened to girls' names, or MOM, or hearts and dragons ?

Hey, I got a tattoo for YOU -

"I'm a clueless dumbsh*t"

Look up Tim Hetherington's "INFIDEL" - (RIP>TIM)

and buy a clue - not only did these Sky Soldiers fight like hell over in those valleys - see their buddies get blown to bits in front of them, get wounded themselves, go through hundreds of firefights and deprivation that would have you crying for your mommy - b ut then they had to watch their puking CIC just hand it all back to the Tallies - ALONG WITH AMMO< ROCKETS< TONS OF GAS - that they then used on our soldiers. Why is that not a traitorous act?-

Suck that one up

32 posted on 04/03/2013 7:44:47 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: Nachum

This facility needs a visit from the “InfIdels” !

Largest group of riders I have ever encountered on the road.


33 posted on 04/03/2013 8:33:19 PM PDT by theneanderthal
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To: Kirkwood
Since when have vets become such whiners? He needs to suck it up, move on, and stop blogging about his hurt feelings.

Absolutely. And we, conservatives, need to quit whining about all the stuff the Marxists are doing. We should just suck it up and move on. In fact, all of us Americans should quit whining about our rights and the Constitution and all that other crap, and stop making so much trouble. The only words we need to know these days are "Thank you, sir, may I have another."
34 posted on 04/03/2013 8:33:46 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: maine-iac7; All
If I had all that shit runnin' around inside of me, I'd organize (or go alone) against the CIC and adjoining etcetera's.

It's the one thing I don't understand.

35 posted on 04/03/2013 9:18:31 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: I cannot think of a name

Wasn’t one of the flight training schools for the 9/11 murdurers in Florida ?


36 posted on 04/03/2013 9:21:10 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Nachum

How come only the muzzies get to define what is offensive?

What about all of the things in America that are offensive to Christians?

Then we get this “tolerance” speech!

Somebody better start telling the muzzies to be more tolerant, or get the hell outta Dodge!


37 posted on 04/03/2013 9:23:28 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: American in Israel

When she puts a strip of it on her ... youknowwhat...


38 posted on 04/03/2013 10:30:27 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Clicking on ther link to their facebook page just redirects me to the facebook main page. I think they may have taken down their facebook page.


39 posted on 04/03/2013 11:34:46 PM PDT by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: Zhang Fei

I spoke too soon. Its still there:

https://www.facebook.com/skydivelakewales


40 posted on 04/03/2013 11:37:15 PM PDT by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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