ranchwife
Well-known member
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:
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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
> > (twentyish) 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!"
~God Bless America~
was not sure if this belonged on here, but a little too "political" for coffee shop!! enjoy.....ranchwife and cowboyup!!!
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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
> > (twentyish) 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!"
~God Bless America~
was not sure if this belonged on here, but a little too "political" for coffee shop!! enjoy.....ranchwife and cowboyup!!!