Posted on 10/28/2009 7:03:26 PM PDT by Saoirise
The White House could not have imagined it was a step behind generous Daily News readers when it invited a wounded Marine to join the First Lady at tonight's opening game of the World Series.
Lance Cpl. Michael Stilson had already gotten a pair of tickets as part of an outpouring by News readers offering to help wounded vets see the Yankees try for another world championship.
Of course, the 22-year-old recovering at Bethesda Naval Medical Center was still more than honored by the offer from the White House. He did not want just to say thanks, but no thanks.
Stilson called the company that gave a total of four World Series tickets to disabled vets in response to an article in The News. He explained that he planned to go with the White House group and was giving the company's tickets to another wounded warrior.
He made sure the company understood he was still totally appreciative of its generosity.
"In that Stadium, anywhere I'm sitting is wonderful," he later said. In the meantime, word may have reached the Marine higher-ups that Stilson already had tickets. Or maybe the command simply decided on another wounded Marine to accompany Michelle Obama and the vice president's wife, Jill Biden.
"You think you got one thing planned out perfectly and the Marine Corps chooses instead," Stilson said. "They told me I was going, then I wasn't any more."
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“The least the Corps could do is put his name in for a 2nd Purple Heart.”
Right on!
He got not to go. /sarc
I’m sure he’ll conduct himself with dignity.
“Why is your huband murdering us?”
I assume the first “lady” bought the ticket with her own money, not mine?
She’s only there so that zero wouldn’t have to demonstrate his patented 55 foot “fast ball.”
Poor Yogi.
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