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Applause in the Airport? Beyond the Beer Commercial ... It Happens ... It Really Happens
Agape Press ^
| 02/10/05
| Matt Friedman, Ph.D.
Posted on 02/17/2005 4:53:37 AM PST by tsmith130
Edited on 02/17/2005 5:18:32 AM PST by Admin Moderator.
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Tissue alert!
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posted on
02/17/2005 4:53:38 AM PST
by
tsmith130
To: tsmith130
Sorry but as a former Recon Marine, this misspelling (or whatever you call it) "re-con Marine" sure is close to a subtle insult to me.
Yes I know it was done simply out of ignorance, but I do get tired of ignorance from "news" reporters.
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posted on
02/17/2005 4:56:41 AM PST
by
CLS
To: tsmith130
It has been on the Dallas NBC5i news that a group of people are at DFW to meet most of the flights - to welcome home the troops. The videos they have shown are very similar to the Super Bowl ad.
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posted on
02/17/2005 5:02:01 AM PST
by
mathluv
To: tsmith130
Misty monitor here..It really , really happens..I know they had a waiting list for volunteers who wanted to meet the troops arriving at DFW.
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posted on
02/17/2005 5:04:02 AM PST
by
MEG33
(GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
To: TexKat
There is already a tissue alert on this one.
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posted on
02/17/2005 5:04:40 AM PST
by
Bahbah
To: CLS
I understand your point, but go easy on Matt. I would not be at all surprised to learn that he is a Freeper. See for yourself at inthefight.com
Mash here
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posted on
02/17/2005 5:07:02 AM PST
by
realpatriot
(Some spelling errors may have been intentionally included)
To: tsmith130; null and void; Mo1; PeaceBeWithYou; nicmarlo; Budge; cyborg; Borax Queen; .38sw; ...
Finally, a POSITIVE story, and very touching! Pound sand, media dinosaurs!
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posted on
02/17/2005 5:07:09 AM PST
by
sweetliberty
(Blind stupidity or blind loyalty is still blind.)
To: mathluv
This is true, and it appears to be growing thanks to an effective grass roots effort...
Our priest announced two weeks ago that our church has been asked if we were interested in providing the same type of support to arriving soldiers at DFW toward the the end of the month. I plan to be there, and from what I've heard it's always crowded...
The MSM becomes more irrelevant with each passing day.
To: tsmith130
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posted on
02/17/2005 5:12:17 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(America's glory is not dominion, but liberty.)
To: sweetliberty
Pound sand, media dinosaurs! bump
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posted on
02/17/2005 5:13:24 AM PST
by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: sweetliberty
That it really happens is why the left hated the commercial so much.
They don't like that it's happening, they are that filled with hatred.
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posted on
02/17/2005 5:13:48 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(America's glory is not dominion, but liberty.)
To: tsmith130
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posted on
02/17/2005 5:14:05 AM PST
by
7.62 x 51mm
(• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
To: tsmith130
And we saw the protests, and we saw what the media was saying about what's going on, and we were worried about what we were actually going to face when we came home. We didn't know what to expect, to be honest with you. From the news media we were seeing, the whole country was basically telling us we're a bunch of jerks. This is sickening. Not only because it's the perception of the troops, but because I firmly believe it is the deliberate intention of the media to discourage our military.
To: workerbee
I agree with you that it's sickening. But apparently, from what I read, it's 'really happening'...which means the media's efforts aren't working.
To: tsmith130
"Tissue alert!"
Indeed. . .and a bump.
It took forty years for the Libs to understand how awful was their treatment of VietNam Vets when they returned. How now. . .the Vietnam era Vets are now heros - thanks to John Kerry, of course; but whatever. . .
/ / . . .and all the while, they are doing the same 'dump on' our current Military - despite their lame protestations that they 'support the troops'. . .
These wars are different; the only thing the same is the Libs hateful response to the men and women who must fight them.
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posted on
02/17/2005 5:21:39 AM PST
by
cricket
(Just say - NO U.N.)
To: 7.62 x 51mm
Uh, thanks I think. I didn't see the ad until I downloaded it. I didn't heed the tissue warning, and now I'm a mess.
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posted on
02/17/2005 5:24:05 AM PST
by
Explorer89
(Q.E.D. man)
To: tsmith130
Those scumbags who spit on GIs and called them "baby killers" are quiet, for the most part, but not gone. Some are in Congress (guess which party)and countless others are lining up to begin feeding at the public trough (Social Security, Medicare, etc). Don't forget them, and don't ever let them presume to speak for the rest of us.
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posted on
02/17/2005 5:29:15 AM PST
by
Feckless
To: tsmith130
What a pleasure to read reports such as this. How glad I am that the participants in this war are received appropriately upon return. How different from the wretched Viet Nam experience. On July 3, 1970 I was one of about 200 soldiers, airmen, and Marines on a DEROS flight from TSN via Yakota to Travis AFB. Because the flight encountered headwinds on the trans-Pacific leg we had to put down at SEATAC for refueling. Once on the ground we were permitted to deplane but because we hadn't passed through customs were not allowed into the main terminal but restricted to one of the gate areas. I vividly remember a Honolulu fight loading up at the gate next to ours. The vacationers and honeymooning couples filed past staring at the group of (mostly) young men waring the green poplin jungle fatigues of that war. We were stared at in the same way people look at jail inmates being loaded on a prison bus or at cattle being put on a truck. Distaste or at most curiosity was all displayed. Not a single friendly expression or greeting.
Later that evening we pulled into Travis and I as all others went through a cursory customs inspection. The inspector asked where I was arriving from (the flight had picked up some people at Yakota). I told him Viet-Nam and he replied "Then, welcome home son." That was the extent of the welcome I got and I will always be grateful to that middle aged customs inspector.
To: tsmith130
Yes, I am happy to say, it really DOES happen! I volunteer at an airport USO and I've seen it happen. Often a family or friends come in to our Lounge and tell us that a soldier is about to arrive. We all stop and go out to meet him/her. I've seen people also stop and cheer when the Trooper arrives. Unfortuntely there still are the jerks who insult our Troops and spit, but it's not as bad in the VietNam era. THANK GOD and keep up your support!!
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posted on
02/17/2005 5:30:59 AM PST
by
Warrior_Queen
("The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing")
To: tsmith130
Tears of joy for our young marines!
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posted on
02/17/2005 5:31:26 AM PST
by
sneakers
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