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FALLUJAH MARINE IN JERSEY 'AIR WAR'
New York Post ^
| 11/23/04
| MARK BULLIET and MARSHA KRANES
Posted on 11/23/2004 12:29:29 AM PST by kattracks
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posted on
11/23/2004 12:29:29 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Maybe the airlines should change its name to Anti-American for leaving that soldier without a room.
2
posted on
11/23/2004 12:31:22 AM PST
by
msnimje
To: kattracks
God Bless the sympathetic hotel guest that gave this hero a room!! Shame on American Airlines!!
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posted on
11/23/2004 12:35:19 AM PST
by
Ros42
To: kattracks
After learning his plight, a sympathetic hotel guest treated him to a room. American Airlines could learn a thing or two from this hotel guest
4
posted on
11/23/2004 12:36:05 AM PST
by
Mo1
(Should be called Oil for Fraud and not Oil for Food)
To: Mo1
AA should make sure Sgt. Juan Jimenez doesn't have to pay for any future flights.
That is if he decides to ever fly with them again.
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posted on
11/23/2004 12:38:56 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: Mo1
"After learning his plight, a sympathetic hotel guest treated him to a room"
I bet she was sympathetic. ooh-rah!
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posted on
11/23/2004 12:40:27 AM PST
by
Fenris6
(3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
To: kattracks
That's the least they should do
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posted on
11/23/2004 12:54:37 AM PST
by
Mo1
(Should be called Oil for Fraud and not Oil for Food)
To: kattracks
I had a similar experience coming home from Maui, but was not detained.
Southwest had overbooked a flight from LA to Sacramento, but I was pretty buzzed from having a few drinks, and gave the airline a piece of my mind. ..I almost got taken away.
This brave soldier deserves a break, I sure didn't!
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posted on
11/23/2004 12:59:46 AM PST
by
Pro-Bush
(Fallujah will be a parking lot soon!)
To: Pro-Bush
Although what this Marine went through was not funny in the least, I remember seeing a comedy clip by Flip Wilson as "Geraldine" where an airline had lost her luggage.
Her response was that "if you can find a runway from 35,000 feet up, in the dark, at 650 mph, you can find my luggage.
9
posted on
11/23/2004 1:05:40 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: Mo1
Something tells me AA will make amends. Unless of course they're morons.
-T
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posted on
11/23/2004 4:15:49 AM PST
by
timbuck2
("The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts." -Edmund Burke)
To: kattracks
I remember a Sienfeld show where Elaine and Jerry were returning from KC to NYC. She gave the skycap a piece of her mind and after she walked off, he tagged her bag for Hawaii.
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posted on
11/23/2004 4:31:41 AM PST
by
7thson
(I think it takes a big dog to weigh a hundred pounds!)
To: kattracks
I hate American Airlines. They've been on the low end for a while. I avoid and have avoided them.
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posted on
11/23/2004 4:34:42 AM PST
by
Fruitbat
To: kattracks
I wish there was an organization that could post volunteers at airports around the country to help our returning troops with issues like this. I hate to think this is the way our fighting men and women are being received on their return home. The USO does a great job supporting our troops overseas but who is taking care of them in our own country?
To: kattracks
If the airline officials only knew what these guys have to go through to get out of Iraq - waiting long hours on dusty or windy flighlines never knowing when transport will arrive, going through Tent Hell and long waiting again at Kuwait and THEN the hellish long flight back to the U.S., usually with a long, boring layover in Europe sonewhere...
All of this after he participated in and endured the long, violent battles in Fallujah...
I don't blame him one bit for letting off some steam. Those American Airline employees could have been a lot more understanding and instead they chose arrogance.
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posted on
11/23/2004 4:42:43 AM PST
by
Allegra
(I'm Still Standing....)
To: kattracks
Wonder why on earth he carried his wallet in the duffel bag? Also, never mind lower-end American Airlines, why didn't the hotel give him a room before a sympathetic guest had to? Wonder how often this happens to our guys and we don't hear about it? At any rate, God bless this soldier and may his homecoming be even better now.
To: msnimje
I can understand his losing his temper but carrying his wallet in his checked duffle bag was just plain stupid. He brought some of his problems on himself.
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posted on
11/23/2004 5:13:51 AM PST
by
NEPA
To: msnimje
As the story repeatedly stated, Jimenez is a Marine, not a soldier.
To: timbuck2
Something tells me AA will make amends. Unless of course they're morons
They're morons.
To: Pro-Bush
Southwest operates a large hub out of BWI, an east coast entry point for a lot of our troops returning from the Middle East. Last year on Thanksgiving they hosted a huge Thanksgiving buffet and sent employees around the airport to round up soldiers who had time for some free food.
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posted on
11/23/2004 7:52:52 AM PST
by
USNBandit
(Florida military absentee voter number 537.)
To: A.A. Cunningham
As the story repeatedly stated, Jimenez is a Marine, not a soldier. Thank you for sharing this information albeit very rudely. I simply did not know you don't call Marines Soldiers. Now I know and I could have learned the same thing had you informed me in a kind and polite way.
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posted on
11/23/2004 5:05:21 PM PST
by
msnimje
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