Letter from an airline pilot

Via email | Updated 11/13/12 | Unknown

[Carriage Hill]

Thanks for the wonderful post, nav. (Kleenex® Alert...)

[Autonomous User]

This is certainly an interweb legend. Twere it a real event it would have been covered extensively by the beacons of truth, the MSM.

[Irish Eyes]

Thanks, reading this with my eyes tearing up. I wonder what airline this was, they deserve great praise.

[johnd201]

Thanks for the posting null and void!! I kept thinking of the movie, Taking Chance throughout the reading. It is a must see for all veterans and their families. (typed through blurry vision)

[little jeremiah]

Some nice freeper emailed me this today.

I will admit that way before I got to the end I was crying uncontrollably.

Dang, doing it again....

[null and void]

To paraphrase someone NOT in high office: "All this for a dead body?"

[Chode]

Amen... Prayers up

[little jeremiah]

You brought me back to this thread and now I’m going to start in again...

Washes the eyes...and the heart.

[maine-iac7]

I’ve read this before.

Still makes me weep.

[Patriot365]

Thank you. I too needed to see this again.

Dang misty screen.

[representativerepublic]

I cannot confirm that this is the same flight, but earlier this year, my wife was returning from a business trip in Hawaii through DFW ( a major hub for American Airlines), and the family of a fallen soldier, the deceased soldier and his escort, were on the flight. She has confirmed that the pilot made an announcement at the gate upon arrival, but said he didn’t give the names. She said not a single passenger moved upon reaching the gate and everything was quiet until the family began to exit and then the passengers began to applaud. She said she and her co-worker watched the “ceremony” as she called it, from the terminal window after they disembarked.

What with this lump in my throat?

[windcliff]

ping

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Well excuse me all to he!! for not reading your freaking footnote. Ask a simple question get a pissy response. KMA.

[null and void]

If that K is for “Kick”, with extreme pleasure.

[azishot]

Thank you, nully. Don’t you hate it when the screen gets all blurry?

May God bless our military.

[houeto]

Thank you so very much for the post nully. I just HAD to go fetch my wife to come read it. Again, thank you.

[onedoug]

Very moving.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Better stick to the original meaning. I don’t think you would get much pleasure from picking up your teeth.