Here's a quote from a government employee who witnessed a recent
>interaction between an elderly woman and an antiwar protester in a
>Metro station in DC.
>
>There were protesters on the train platform handing out pamphlets on
>The evils of America. I politely declined to take one.
>
>An elderly woman was behind me getting off the escalator and a young
>(20-ish) female protester offered her a pamphlet, which she politely
>declined. The young protester put her hand on the old woman's shoulder
>as a gesture of friendship and in a very soft voice said,"Lady,
>don't you care about the children of Iraq ?"
>
>The old woman looked up at her and said, "Honey, my father died in
>France during World War II, I lost my husband in Korea, and a son in
>Vietnam. All three died so you could have the right to stand here and
>bad mouth our country.
>
>If you touch me again, I'll stick this umbrella up your ass and open
>it."
>interaction between an elderly woman and an antiwar protester in a
>Metro station in DC.
>
>There were protesters on the train platform handing out pamphlets on
>The evils of America. I politely declined to take one.
>
>An elderly woman was behind me getting off the escalator and a young
>(20-ish) female protester offered her a pamphlet, which she politely
>declined. The young protester put her hand on the old woman's shoulder
>as a gesture of friendship and in a very soft voice said,"Lady,
>don't you care about the children of Iraq ?"
>
>The old woman looked up at her and said, "Honey, my father died in
>France during World War II, I lost my husband in Korea, and a son in
>Vietnam. All three died so you could have the right to stand here and
>bad mouth our country.
>
>If you touch me again, I'll stick this umbrella up your ass and open
>it."