Posted on 05/26/2019 10:18:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
Every year, the approach of Memorial Day is heralded by advertisements for weekend appliance sales, vehicle discounts, and mattress price drops. Many Americans celebrate it with backyard barbecues, family road trips, or by opening their swimming pools. For most, it has become little more than an unofficial signal of summer’s arrival. But for me, the last Monday of May is one of the most important dates on America’s calendar.
A few years ago, I was traveling in Pennsylvania with my parents when we stopped to have breakfast at one of our favorite places, Cracker Barrel. When Daddy briefly excused himself near the middle of our meal, the restaurant’s manager approached the table and kindly asked my mother if she minded telling him about my father’s extensive injuries.
Mom replied in the same way she always does in such instances, enthusiastically: “Oh, not at all! You see, my husband gave his arm and eye in Vietnam. He was there defending the rights of the Vietnamese people. He’s always hated oppression like what they faced in those days, and he grew to love them.”
Just about then, Daddy returned, and the manager wanted to buy his breakfast. When Daddy politely refused, he insisted. “Sir,” he said with deep respect, “your wife just told me how you were hurt. I am Vietnamese. And I know that if it had not been for men like you fighting to liberate us, I would never have had the opportunity to do this job – nor would my son have graduated from medical school as a neurosurgeon!”
To see the two men embracing and crying together brought tears to my own eyes, as shows of appreciation for our veterans always do.
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Ralph Johnson, thank you.
We trust that Compatriot John is with THE SAVIOR forever.
Yours, Darla & TMN78247
Tto bad I’m serving a 30 day sentence in facebook jail, I would love to share this in a bunch of liberal groups.
My eyes get a bit blurry.
Lovely lady God bless her.
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most legal immigrants in the ‘old days’ understood what they came to America for — OPPORTUNITY (instead of a handout)
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