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SFO Passenger Deplaned From Delta Flight Due to T-Shirt [End Veteran Suicide]
SFGate ^ | Oct 18, 2024 | Olivia Harden

Posted on 10/19/2024 11:06:38 AM PDT by nickcarraway

On Oct. 16, Catherine Banks, a Marine Corps veteran, was asked to get off her flight, which was departing out of San Francisco International Airport. Once she exited the plane, the flight attendant explained that Banks needed to change because her shirt was “threatening,” Banks told NBC Bay Area (KNTV). It featured a message about veteran suicide rates in the U.S.

“Do not give in to the war within,” the shirt read. “End veteran suicide.”

Banks said that after informing the flight attendant of her service, she was still forced to change on the jet bridge and had to turn her back away from the flight attendant because she wasn’t wearing a bra.

“I said, ‘Are you kidding me? I’m a Marine Corps vet. I’m going to see my Marine sister. I’ve been in the Marine Corps for 22 years and worked for the Air Force for 15 years. I’m going to visit her,’” Banks said. “He said, ‘I don’t care about your service, and I don’t care about her service. The only way you’re going to get back on the plane is if you take it off right now.’”

Banks also said that when she got back on the plane, she was forced to sit in the back instead of sitting in the seat she had paid for, which had extra legroom.

Veteran suicides are at an all-time high, according to United Service Organizations.

“In 2021, research found that 30,177 active duty personnel and veterans who served in the military after 9/11 have died by suicide — compared to the 7,057 service members killed in combat in those same 20 years,” the organization wrote on its website.

Banks’ shirt is sold by Til Valhalla Project, which honors soldiers by raising funds for families to receive memorial plaques after their

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


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Military/Veterans; Travel
KEYWORDS: airlines; aviation; buyabra; delta; usmc
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1 posted on 10/19/2024 11:06:38 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Who complained?


2 posted on 10/19/2024 11:07:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: nickcarraway

What Airline?


3 posted on 10/19/2024 11:09:40 AM PDT by bobrlbob
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To: BenLurkin

Some MagaDS screaming psychopathic Karen taking inspiration from Her Royal Hiney.


4 posted on 10/19/2024 11:10:11 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: bobrlbob

Sorry, Delta.


5 posted on 10/19/2024 11:10:31 AM PDT by bobrlbob
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To: nickcarraway

Why do I think there’s more to this story, beyond the fact that it’s being reported by an America-hating outlet?


6 posted on 10/19/2024 11:12:01 AM PDT by BobL
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To: nickcarraway

Sue the ahole airline and the faggot “flight attendant” separately. Publicize his (it’s) name.

And no more bailouts for these ConAir prototypes who call themselves “airlines.”


7 posted on 10/19/2024 11:12:15 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (I "earned" the same number of delegates during the primaries in 2020 and 2024 as Harris.)
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To: nickcarraway

Just sue the airline.


8 posted on 10/19/2024 11:12:34 AM PDT by Clean_Sweep
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To: nickcarraway

That flight attendant needs to be fired. And #### Delta.


9 posted on 10/19/2024 11:12:54 AM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, and Corey Comperatore!)
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To: nickcarraway
she was forced to sit in the back instead of sitting in the seat she had paid for, which had extra legroom.

Removing the shirt seems obnoxious and unnecessary to me. But they also made her move to a different seat? I suppose because some other passenger felt "threatened" by her whether she was wearing the shirt or not? What makes that other passenger so damn important??

10 posted on 10/19/2024 11:14:46 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: nickcarraway

A Bay Area passenger was forced to deplane from a Delta Air Lines flight and change clothes after a flight attendant took issue with her T-shirt.

Delta was a C$ airline, decades ago to Vets and active duty
people, decades ago.


11 posted on 10/19/2024 11:15:07 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of so-called experts! Americans are the most useless aristocrats in history!)
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12 posted on 10/19/2024 11:20:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: bobrlbob

Figures, Delta sucks. Their first class doesn’t even come close to business on any decent airline and their service sucks. Doesn’t surprise me that their personnel are anti-American. I’ll never use them again. They be run out of business.


13 posted on 10/19/2024 11:21:44 AM PDT by Dave911
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To: BobL

Well she wasn’t wearing a bra. That might have made a poor impression.


14 posted on 10/19/2024 11:22:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: nickcarraway

So many people should not have an iota of power.


15 posted on 10/19/2024 11:29:26 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: bobrlbob

Delta. Of course.


16 posted on 10/19/2024 11:30:12 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: BenLurkin

“Well she wasn’t wearing a bra. That might have made a poor impression.”

I doubt any woman in SF wears a bra, so that didn’t get my attention.


17 posted on 10/19/2024 11:31:08 AM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

I’m wondering if the attendant is just very ignorant.


18 posted on 10/19/2024 11:31:18 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: nickcarraway

We are starting to question, “What next?” I see a slippery slope these airlines are stepping onto. What the need to worry about is keeping tires on the airplane, doors secured to the airplane and not flying their planes into each other.


19 posted on 10/19/2024 11:31:46 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: bobrlbob

Uh, Delta. It says that in the headline.


20 posted on 10/19/2024 11:33:09 AM PDT by vivenne
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