Posted on 06/08/2005 10:13:58 AM PDT by meandog
It all began rather innocently.
I made the long trek from my Southwest Virginia home to Richmond to be with my two beautiful daughters (the youngest a Richmonder completing her final year in Nursing and the other a Savannah, Ga. RN). They had summoned me for an early Father's Day adventure to Washington, DC, as they both couldn't be off this coming weekend, and so we started out early last Saturday for the nation's capitol.
We stopped at an Arlington, Va., metro station to take the train into the capitol and it was there that I noticed a pimply-faced youth (approximately early 20s) with a t-shirt that shouted: "My Parents Voted Republican and All I Got Was This Stupid President."
I immediately engaged the punk in conversation and asked "where did you get such an offensive t-shirt?"
"I got it from Democratic Underground.com if it is any of your business," he snapped, "and if it offends you then too f*cking bad! F*ck your president and his godammed war too!"
Normally, I would have let the response go but for some reason his response just made my blood boil; metro rage, I suppose you could call it. So, despite the pleas of my two daughters, I got up and sat right down beside him.
"You know, back in 1969 when I was returning in uniform with a group of my shipmates from Christmas leave a bunch of anti-war hippies attempted to us in the old New York Port Authority Bus Terminal. They were isolated on the top deck of the bus station and, as servicemen walked beneath them, each was greeted with hoots and shouts of "baby killer" and some were even spat upon," I told him. "Unfortunately, for some of them, they happened to end up later on the identical train north from Union Station and were recognized when we sailors returned to our New London, Conn. submarine base. The end result for most of them were blackened running lights and busted snot lockers," I told him in the saltiest and sarcastic sea voice I could muster.
Immediately, even though he had me by more than 30 years and was 30 pounds leaner, he became very uncomfortable by my presence and moved forward to another seat. I moved with him.
"You realize, don't you," I said, "we'll soon be stopping at Pentagon Station and I wouldn't want to be you if some soldier, sailor, Marine or airman takes offense at your t-shirt. He became even more noticibly uncomfortable.
By this time my two daughters were pleading with me to return to my seat and, not wanting to embarrass them further, I obliged.
But as we pulled into to the Pentagon stop, where some uniformed servicemen and women did indeed get on, I glanced forward to where the youth had been sitting.
And his t-shirt was now being worn inside out!
I salute you, Sailor! (from on old Air Force vet)
Liberals are cowards, its the nature of their mental disorder... they are loud and boistrous when then know they are safe, but when it comes time for them to have to stand up to an equal or larger foe, they scurry under the rocks like the rodents they are.
Liberalism is nothing more than perpetual adolescense.
funny,
i hope the lettering itched his yellow belly
You can't take a Bubblehead anywhere!
; )
Awesome! I hope your daughters were proud of you.
Awesome. You are one mean dog. Kudos!
Viet Nam Era Return Home Bump!
Nice job!
LOL!!!! Fine job!! ;o)
I give you the FR dog salute.
Tell them to immigrate to China :)
bttt
If someone spoke that way if front of my daughter they'd have a broken jaw.
I admire your restraint.
I like that. :-)
LOL! Since I moved to Virginia I've been sending my Dad Tee-Shirts to wear up in the People's Republic of Taxatooshitts. One said CIA, another was Rush Limbaugh EIB, another with W's profile saying "Saving your ass, like it or not." But his favorite seems to be the one I sent first. It says "Celebrate Diversity" and has about 30+ photos of .45 caliber handguns.
Thank you.
Great story!
good one
I myself am thinking of getting a yellow T shirt that says "Citizen of the Banana Republic of Canada"
on the front with some appropriate self designed logo, I know the Canadian flag with a banana instead of a maple leaf maybe?
and on the back something like Screw me some more Liberal Party of Canada, steal some more of my tax dollars, please either that or Cut out the Middleman, sent your tax dollars directly to the Liberal Party of Canada
I could probably mass produce those eh and make a buck? I'd offer the option of the two slogans on the back
after 9-11 I wanted to get a T shirt that said F*** the terrorists and wear it in NYC but I never had a chance to get to NYC until recently and the sentiment would be lost now it seems
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