As a soldier stood in line at a California grocery store, a woman wearing a hijab confronted the store’s cashier about their American flag pin, and everyone in the store heard it. However, a man standing behind the soldier wasn’t having any of it, and by the time he finished, the entire store was caught off guard.
According to an unverifiable claim, a man recounted the story about how his son had encountered many different people in California, most of whom thanked him for his military service and fighting to protect our freedoms. However, one incident at a grocery store as he headed back to base stuck in his mind.
As the soldier was waiting in the checkout line, a woman dressed in a hijab had some unkind things to say about our country and the flag that represents it. He heard the woman ahead of him loudly remark about the cashier’s American flag pin. In response, the cashier reached up and touched the pin, saying, “Yes, I always wear it and probably always will.”
Apparently, that didn’t sit too well with the hijab-wearing woman, who claimed to be of Iraqi descent. She shot back by asking the clerk when she was going to stop bombing her country. Well, that comment didn’t go unnoticed or unchecked.
After the man standing behind the soldier heard her remark, he spoke up, putting his arm around the soldier’s shoulders. In a calm and gentle voice, he said 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 checkout 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.”
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