Oh, that is just HEARTWARMING! To hear comments and stories like that, it’s just wonderful.
I could not POSSIBLY portray their sincerity and affection in this forum. It was ASTONISHING. I was moved to TEARS. These two BEAUTIFUL girls who were SO charming.
Right before they swore me to tell “ all the American Army” I knew (they had NO idea how big is the USA), they were talking in Swedish/?/English between themselves.
They looked at me and realized I was not following them so the Kuwaiti girl said “IN A HOLE, THEY FOUND HIM IN A HOLE”.. and the Iranian girl chimed in “ YOU KNOW, THE MONSTER SADDAM”.....THAT is the image a LOT of Middle E residents have ( or HAD)....we FREED TWO ENTIRE COUNTRIES, found one of the Dictators HIDING IN A HOLE.
We were living in Paris, France at the time and I could tell you a MILLION stories of people I met who LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THE USA...
We travelled extensively and the Czechs, Italians, southern France, Hungarians, Romanians....they LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the USA TO THIS DAY and look up to us!
Our MILITARY did this...not the fricking diplomats.It was our MILITARY who represented ALL that the USA stands for and it STICKS with people. They REMEMBER. To experience that to me was INTENSE....I was SO PROUD.
When we lived in Paris, I would wear my rhinestone USA pin ( yeah, TACKY BUT VISIBLE!) all the time. You would not BELIEVE the people who approached me speaking English BECAUSE THEY RECOGNIZED THAT FLAG!!!! IT HAS ALWAYS MEANT FREEDOM to the WORLD!
As I said........THANK YOU will NEVER be enough!