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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Quietly donate money in the name of the dead soldier to a vets fund. Don’t use the captive audience of a plane to show off your singing and signal your virtue.
Delta is a poor successor to Northwest Orient.
Singing the national anthem as the casket of a soldier is brought on board? Really? That just seems odd.
A dignified silence seems more appropriate.
“dignified silence seems more appropriate.”
Amen.
The real problem here is that we are letting people come to our nation that would be offended.
Why on Earth do that?
If someone objects to hearing our national anthem at such a time as this, send them back on the next flight. We don’t want them.
We have a right to love our nation, and mourn our fallen service members any way we like.
I started out thinking perhaps these folks should put a lid on it. Then the more I thought about it, the more claer it became that this would be one more thing WE HAVE TO GIVE UP, because someone else might be offended.
Screw anyone who would be offended. As I said, get them out of our nation ASAP.
If it’s another citizen, ask them where they’d like to be dropped off.
Yes, I’m that sick of this nonsense.
Article said the casket was being taken from the plane.
That’s good advice, before we allow ourselves to get all riled up. Let’s not over use the ‘I AM OUTRAGED!” card.
Maybe her singing sucked.
Agreed.
Let’s go easy on Delta. They surely know that, if they let him sing the Anthem, some judge would force them to allow Sanders supporters to sing an ode to socialism as loudly and obnoxiously as possible.
Sorry — wrong sex.
This.
You don’t understand what the term virtue signaling means.
Should this be an ‘every-time’ occurrence? I’m not looking for that. None the less, if someone sees the caskets going by draped in our flag, I have no problem with people breaking out into the anthem.
As far as I am concerned, silence works too.
The point is, we shouldn’t be prevented from doing this.
As for Sanders folks, this isn’t about singing anything we want anytime we want.
It’s a special case of showing respect, and they can stuff their pain for a few minutes.
The answer to your comment is the comment is wrong.
The best thing a person could do on that flight with the fallen soldier is sing the national anthem.
Uncommon is not the same as odd.
The woman is obviously not a conformist, and she’s clearly willing to honor our fallen with her individualism.
To ridicule someone by calling them odd sounds a bit like ostracism.
I might be offended by some random person singing the national anthem in a tight space. Like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get. Just sit down and shut up, respectfully is preferred, if one can manage it.
Agree. A dignified silence would be better.
It would have been nice if that was the reason for the Delta employee’s admonition.
Instead, it appears that it’s Delta’s policy not to allow foreign visitors to be offended by displays of American pride, on an American carrier, in America.
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