Posted on 10/16/2017 8:52:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Georgia physician said her plan to honor a fallen soldier by singing the U.S. national anthem aboard a Delta Air Lines plane carrying the soldier’s casket was stopped by a flight attendant who told her it would violate company policy.
Dr. Pamela Gaudry of Savannah said she and fellow passengers were told “to stay quietly in our seats” as an honor guard escorted the casket from the plane Saturday at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. A flight attendant told her that singing “The Star Spangled Banner” would make passengers from other countries uncomfortable, she said.
“I couldn’t put up with that,” Gaudry told The Associated Press in an interview Monday. “I wouldn’t be offended if I was in their country.”
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This moment was more personal for the family than singing the National Anthem. Don’t they use church music if there is music when moving the body?
Remember that scene from the movie Red Dawn when e Harry Dean Stanton and some other boys’ pappies were singing, just before the communists mowed them down?
I remember looking around the theater and there was a lot of cringing going on. Those old boys couldn’t carry a note in a bucket. And it’s a tough song to sing.
Dignified silence. Agreed.
There is definitely some overlap, and I would put this right in that overlap area, but a bit heavier on the odd.
Your post is right on the money. Unfortunately, PC bullshit has infected FR as well. I’m noticing more and more snowflakes showing up as OP’s with weird screen names. And if you click on the screen name it always shows them as having been FReepers for 15 or more years, with NOTHING listed on their profile page. I’m not buying. Something isn’t right. How can you have all of these FReepers suddenly come out of the damned woodwork showing they’ve been here for 20 years, when no one’s ever heard of them or seen them before? And funny how their posts always seem to be left of center or at least critical of a conservative viewpoint?
I don’t expect anything good from Delta.
http://news.delta.com/delta-celebrates-marriage-equality
That’s okay. I appreciate your alternate view.
That has seemed to be the case for me at times too.
Not sure what is going on there.
I appreciate the mention.
It makes you think there are people trying to shift the views of FReepers through argument, not in pursuit of truth but undermining their conservatism.
Or maybe I’m just being paranoid. But it does fit into the Leftists’ playbook.
IF it was my Family member I would have been very pleased that someone cared enough to strike up the Anthem no matter what it sounded like, God Bless America
Your not the only one who has observed that, or the actual newbies that post 25 times in 24 hrs with a bit of leftist in them
I understand so much more than you do it isn’t funny. I am so far above you.
You have no right to do that. The airline has the right to stop you.
The main piece of news that I got from this article is that we have troops in Niger.
I don’t want to stand up in a crowded airplane and sing a song. A fallen soldier deserves dignified quiet, not a celebration of bombs bursting in air.
Just as the NFL thugs don’t understand the anthem, neither do the “sing it for the fallen” people. The song is a celebration of America—all of it. This is the soldiers, sailors, Marines, as well as the construction workers, engineers, pizza makers, and stay at home moms. It celebrates a nation of no specific ethnicity or ancestry, a nation where every person is nobility and is also a person who serves in their own way.
If you want to honor the troops, demand that the wars be won in the most brutal way possible, utterly destroying the enemy, and then let the troops come home.
Good post.
While the FA was wrong in the reason she allegedly gave to the Dr. Gaudry, there is a decorum and protocol to be followed as a fallen service member is taken “home” for burial – it is about the solemnity and dignity of transporting the fallen and demands respectful silence with hats off, hands on hearts, heads bowed, military and former military members saluting, all in respect for the fallen, and for the family and for the military member(s) accompanying the body. It is not the time to break out in song, doing the “flash mob thing” even if the song is the National Anthem, even if the intentions are, well - well-intentioned.
Likewise, it would also not be appropriate for those gathered to watch the changing of the guard at Arlington National Cemetery to break out in singing the National Anthem (or for that matter, taking a knee) either just because they “feel” moved to do so and want to be part of it. I’ve been there twice and would never think to break the silence and solemnity of the ceremony. And the transport of a fallen soldier is really no different. It is the time to pay respect and not break into song and make it about “me”.
If any of you haven’t yet, watch the movie “Taking Chance”. It is based on real-life events, Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort officer who accompanies the body of 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming. It is extremely well done, non-political and Keven Bacon is superb as Lt. Col. Michael Strob and I watch it every Memorial Day and every time, I cry.
It shows the how the military, in the case the Marine Corps, follows a strict protocol that honors the fallen, escorting the body from the time he lands in Dover AFB and his body is respectfully prepared for burial by the military mortuary, and all the way, along the many flights and transports then finally home to his family and for burial. It also shows how other people are moved by Chance’s and Lt. Col. Strobl’s journey home along the way. And no one breaks out in song.
Virtue signaling is when progressives broadcast their progressive attributes or actions. The purpose is to appear virtuous. The truth is there is no virtue in progressivism.
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