Roddy Stinson: Passenger sitting behind soldier reports 'a very moving moment'
Web Posted: 09/29/2007 11:04 PM CDT
Roddy Stinson
San Antonio Express-News
THE GOOD
Last Wednesday, while flying from Phoenix to the Alamo City on U.S. Airways Flight 207, a San Antonio man, Gil Anderson, witnessed something memorable.
Shortly before takeoff, he overheard a flight attendant tell a young uniformed soldier sitting in front of him:
"A lady in first-class wants to switch seats with you."
The soldier accepted the offer and walked up to the first-class section.
"When the lady came back to our area, I had a tear in my eye," Anderson said when he phoned this column soon after his plane landed. "I gave her a little round of applause.
"Then, by golly, everybody in that area started applauding," he said in a voice tinged with emotion. "It was a very moving moment."
Acknowledging the applause of Anderson and the other passengers, the first-class lady said simply:
"I did it because he deserves it."
THE GLAD
Last Wednesday, by a vote of 341-79, members of the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution praising the patriotism of Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of United States forces in Iraq, and condemning a MoveOn.org ad that referred to Petraeus as "General Betray Us."
Active and retired members of the U.S. military in San Antonio will be pleased to learn that the entire South Texas congressional delegation — Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives — voted "aye."
In the case of the Democrats, it took some courage to risk alienating the leftie moonbats at MoveOn.org, who with their ideological allies increasingly dominate the Democratic Party.
A special salute to U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar, Charlie Gonzalez, Ciro Rodriguez, Lloyd Doggett and Solomon Ortiz...
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