[GCFL-discuss] A TSA welcome home for the troops...

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

No more children on the way for me I'm sad to say. - jp

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 23:46, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List <
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>  This story isn't too far from reality, if it is at all.
> My 22 year-old son recently spent 15 months in Iraq and he has stories
> about the silliness of questioning soldiers carrying emptied and/or loaded
> weapons.  Sometimes you just have to wonder what happened to balancing
> security concerns with common sense.  It wasn't so very long ago (I was
> within a mile of the event at the time) that a trusted American soldier
> murdered his fellow soldiers in cold blood on Army base on American soil.
> So maybe a little discretion regarding soldiers and weapons should be
> exerted.  But in the story Siarlys shared, it went too far.
> By the way, my son is now a sergeant in the US Army and we are very proud
> of him.  He is an unmanned aerial vehicle operator and loves his job.  Best
> of all, he and his wife of 4 years have provided us with a grandson who is
> now a one year-old and a granddaughter due to arrive in February.
> An aside...  Americans (me included) have no idea how it would feel to
> live in a country where security is really high (like Israel) because we
> have always flexed our freedom muscles.
> Thanks Siarlys.
> Any more children on the way, John?
> Jeanene
>
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