Great E-mail

This is an e-mail that I received recently and it's too good not to share:


One of my sons serves in the military. He is stationed stateside, here
in California. He called me yesterday to let me know how warm and
welcoming people were to him and his troops everywhere they go.
Telling me how people shake their hands and thank them for being
willing to serve and fight, not only our own freedoms but so that
others may have them too.

Then he told me about an incident in the grocery store he stopped at
yesterday, on his way home from the base. He said that several
people were in the line ahead of him, including a woman dressed in a
burkha.

He said when she got to the cashier, she made a loud remark about
the U.S. Flag, lapel pin, the cashier wore on her smock. The cashier
reached up and touched the pin and said, "Yes, I always wear it proudly,
because I'm an American."

The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to
stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi.

Then, a Gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward, putting
his arm around my son's shoulders and nodding towards my son, said in a
calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi woman: Lady, hundreds of thousands of
men and women like this young man have fought and died so that YOU could
stand here, in MY country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing
YOUR countrymen. It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in
YOUR own country, we wouldn't need to be there today. But, hey, if you have
now learned how to speak out so loudly and clearly, I'll gladly buy you
a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq, so you can straighten out the
Mess in YOUR country, that you are obviously here in MY country to
avoid."

Everyone within hearing distance cheered!

I couldn't have said it better myself!
And That's What I Think!