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What THE PEOPLE Think – Never Mind The Politicians!
Eleven soldiers touched by act of kindness
Published: Monday, May 6, 2013 at 22:10 PM.
A group of soldiers training at Hurlburt Field from Fort Bragg last week never got a chance to say “thank you” in person.
By the time the 11 soldiers got up to pay for their meal at Sonny’s BBQ in Fort Walton Beach, the person who’d picked up all of their checks had already left.
“It was such a gracious act,” wrote Rose Lintz, whose husband, Philip, was one of the visiting soldiers. “We don’t know who it was. We don’t know if we’ll ever find out.
“That small way of saying thank you meant so much to them,” she added in the email to the Northwest Florida Daily News.
The soldiers had been in the area for nearly two weeks when they went to Sonny’s on Thursday, their last day in the area.
On the way in, they held the door open for an older man and his wife. The man teased them about wearing the wrong uniforms — telling them the only “right uniform” was that of the Marines.
The younger men and the older couple chatted back and forth until they were all seated.
The couple left first.
When the soldiers got up to pay, the waitress told them their checks had been taken care of.
“There’s 11 of us,” they said. “There has to be a check.”
The waitress told them it had been paid but wouldn’t tell them who had taken care of it.
The soldiers were touched and Philip texted his wife immediately about the kind act.
“Those guys don’t do it for the recognition,” Rose wrote. “The fact that others will give up their time, money or both just to say thank you shows that even though there are some crazy things going on in this nation, people still have the heart of true Americans.”
Daily News Staff Writer Wendy Victora can be reached at 850-315-4478 or wvictora@nwfdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @WendyVnwfdn.
Comments of The Day
This mad woman Should let them live in her street Bet after a week she would open her eyes.
- cartman666, middlesbrough, 8/5/2013 0:52
Rating 949
Maybe Miss. Lambert should put her own money where her mouth is and not the taxpayer’s.
- EscapeefromUK, Palm City Florida, 7/5/2013 19:59
Rating 786
Jean Lambert, MEP for London. Green party. Well done love, you have forever lost my vote for your party.
- TDD, Stockport, United Kingdom, 8/5/2013 0:39
Rating 756
She can keep them at her house and pay for them then. We can’t afford the poor we have now, how on earth can we afford any more?! Our NHS is at breaking point as is the police and welfare (including housing).
- Samantha, Oxford, United Kingdom, 7/5/2013 21:04
Rating 714
People have voted for this fool in the past, hopefully they won’t in the future.
- teeepeee, KIDDERMINSTER, 7/5/2013 19:43
Rating 679
So sorry for you in Britain. What with the EU and the parliamentarians you have elected. You really have drawn the short straw. And the way things are going it will only get worse.
- Rover, Perth, Australia, 8/5/2013 0:40
Rating 653
what stone did this woman crawl out from,the country is in such a mess because of people with stupid ideas like hers.
- beerman, mansfield, 8/5/2013 0:30
Rating 617
what a prat, is this woman for real or just a wind up?.
- patgard36, london, United Kingdom, 7/5/2013 19:44
Rating 598
London Green Party MEP Jean Lambert
Roma gypsies should be guaranteed cash hand-outs and police protection, claims London MEP
- Jean Lambert, MEP is calling for new laws to protect immigrants from being excluded from social security benefits
- She wants unlimited healthcare for immigrants and an overhaul of the social security system to ensure they are provided with sufficient funds
- Prime Minister David Cameron has announced plans to curb benefits for immigrants who do not have jobs
Liblabcon Traitors To Note!
“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome will become bankrupt.
People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance.”
Cicero , 55 BC
So, evidently we’ve learnt sod all over the past 2,068 years.
Pick of The Pics from WW11
In March of 1974, some 29 years after the official end of World War II, Hiroo Onoda, a former Japanese Army intelligence officer, walks out of the jungle of Lubang Island in the Philippines, where he was finally relieved of duty. He handed over his sword (hanging from his hip in photo), his rifle, ammunition and several hand grenades. Onoda had been sent to Lubang Island in December of 1944 to join an existing group of soldiers and hamper any enemy attacks. Allied forces overtook the island just a few months later, capturing or killing all but Onoda and three other Japanese soldiers. The four ran into the hills and began a decades-long insurgency extending well past the end of the war. Several times they found or were handed leaflets notifying them that the war had ended, but they refused to believe it. In 1950, one of the soldiers turned himself in to Philippine authorities. By 1972, Onoda’s two other compatriots were dead, killed during guerrilla activities, leaving Onoda alone. In 1974, Onoda met a Japanese college dropout, Norio Suzuki, who was traveling the world, and through their friendship, Onoda’s former commanding officer was located and flew to Lubang Island to formally relieve Onoda of duty, and bring him home to Japan. Over the years, the small group had killed some 30 Filipinos in various attacks, but Onoda ended up going free, after he received a pardon from President Ferdinand Marcos. (AP Photo)
Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, one year after the atomic bomb blast shows some small amount of reconstruction amid much ruin on July 20, 1946. The slow pace of rebuilding is attributed to a shortage of building equipment and materials. (AP Photo/Charles P. Gorry)
The interior of the courtroom of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in 1946 during the Trial of the Major War Criminals, prosecuting 24 government and civilian leaders of Nazi Germany. Visible here is Hermann Goering, former leader of the Luftwaffe, seated in the box at center right, wearing a gray jacket, headphones, and dark glasses. Next to him sits Rudolf Hess, former Deputy Fuhrer of Germany, then Joachim von Ribbentrop, former Nazi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wilhelm Keitel, former leader of Germany’s Supreme Command (blurry face), and Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the highest ranking surviving SS-leader. Goering, von Ribbentrop, Keitel, and Kaltenbrunner were sentenced to death by hanging along with 8 others — Goering committed suicide the night before the execution. Hess was sentenced to life imprisonment, which he served at Spandau Prison, Berlin, where he died in 1987. (AP Photo/STF)
It’s Not Easy Getting Old!
Yesterday, my daughter again asked why I didn’t do something useful with my time .
Talking about my “doing something useful” seemed to be her favourite topic of conversation ..
She was “only thinking of me ,” and suggested I go down to the over 60′s club and have a chat with the guys ..
I did this , and when I got home last night I decided to teach her a lesson about staying out of my business .
I told her that I had joined a parachute club ..
She said, “Are you nuts? You ‘re almost 79 years old , and you’re going to start jumping out of airplanes ?”
I proudly showed her that I even got a membership card ..
She said to me, “Good grief, where are your glasses ! This is a membership to a Prostitute Club , not a Parachute Club ..”
“I’m in trouble again, and I don’t know what to do… I signed up for five jumps a week,” I told her. She fainted.
Life as a senior citizen is not getting any easier , but sometimes it can be fun !
What We Are Not Supposed To See!
Little Johnny’s Breakfast – - – - -
A grade three teacher is giving a lesson on nutrition, and she decides to ask her students what they had for breakfast.
To add a spelling component, she asks the students to also spell their answers.
Susan puts up her hand and says she had an egg, ‘E-G-G’.
‘Very good’, says the teacher.
Peter says he had toast ‘T-O-A-S-T’.
‘Excellent.’
Johnny has his hand up and the teacher reluctantly calls on him.
‘I had bugger all’, he says, ‘ B-U-G-G-E-R-A-L-L’.
The teacher is mortified and scolds Johnny for his rude answer.
Later when the lesson turns to geography, she asks the students some rudimentary questions.
Susan correctly identifies the Capital of Canada . Peter is able to tell her which ocean is off Canada ‘s east coast.
When it’s Johnny’s turn, the teacher remembers his rude answer from the nutrition lesson, and decides to give him a very difficult question.
Johnny, she asks, ‘Where is the Pakistani border?’
Johnny ponders the question and finally says, ‘The Pakistani boarder is in bed with my mother. That’s why I got bugger all for breakfast’
For Cameron, Clarke, et al!
“Send in the clowns”! Well, the ‘clowns’ are a-coming, and we’re gonna take back our country.
What did the Tories say about a UKIP candidate?
Now, if I was still a Tory, presumably I could say that they are worse than loonies, fruitcakes, closet-racists, etc., as Tories do not need anything other than accusations to ‘convict’! What a bunch!
Priorities!
- Charlie Sheen is 45 and his story is all over the news because he is a substance abuser, an adulterer, sexually promiscuous and obnoxious.
- Lindsay Lohan is 24 and her story is all over the news because she is a celebrity drug addict and a thief.
- The media spent 3 days on Whitney Houston, a celebrity drug addict who O.D.’ed herself.
- Michael Jackson, a mentally troubled celebrity who also died of an overdose of drugs.
- Something as frivolous as Kim Kardashian’s stupid wedding (and short-lived marriage) was shoved down our throats.
While…
Justin Allen 23
Brett Linley 29
Matthew Weikert 29
Justus Bartett 27
Dave Santos 21
Jesse Reed 26
Matthew Johnson 21
Zachary Fisher 24
Brandon King 23
Christopher Goeke 23
And
Sheldon Tate 27…
Are all Marines that gave their lives last month for you. There is no media for them; not even a mention of their names.
Honour THEM by sending this on. I did, will you?
Rest In Peace lads.
Hi Dickie,
If you haven’t already spotted this in the DM – it’s my choice of ‘Comment of the Day’.
“Given that the police now seem to be mainly concerned with crimes (or alleged crimes) committed 40 or more years ago,
can we expect, around 2053, a great nationwide mass arrest of elderly, white-haired muggers, burglars, shoplifters, vandals and GBH merchants?”
.
Cheers….B
How to kill support for the Green Party stone dead.
- CJones, NWales, 7/5/2013 19:56