Gold Star family of slain Calif. soldier booed on flight-from First Class Passengers.

[riversedge]

Such pettyness is beyond the pale. May the family find peace. And shame on the ones who booed this family.


Gold Star family of slain Calif. soldier booed on flight

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gold-star-family-of-slain-calif-soldier-booed-on-flight/ar-AAkvERn?ocid=st



Tribune News Service

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This undated photo provided by the Fort Hood, Texas Press Center shows U.S. Army Sgt. John W. Perry of Stockton, Calif. The Department of Defense said Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, that Perry died Saturday, Nov. 12 from injuries inflicted by an improvised explosive device in Bagram, Afghanistan. Perry was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Special Troops Battalion, 1st Sustainment Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas. © Department of Defense/AP Photo This undated photo provided by the Fort Hood, Texas Press Center shows U.S. Army Sgt. John W. Perry of Stockton, Calif. The Department of Defense said Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, that Perry died Saturday, Nov. 12 from injuries…



STOCKTON, Calif. -- The father of a soldier who was killed last weekend in Afghanistan was disappointed and hurt after airline passengers booed him and his family as they flew to meet his son's remains.

Stewart Perry, an ex-Marine who lives in Stockton, said the ordeal left him feeling disrespected.

"It was really disgusting on the passengers' part," he said Friday.

His son, Sgt. John Perry, was one of two killed in an explosion at a United States airbase on Nov. 12. He was honored at a memorial service in Lodi on Thursday and will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

John Perry, 30, and Pfc. Tyler R. Iubelt of Tamaroa, Illinois, died from their injuries after the attack by an apparent suicide bomber at the Bagram Airfield at about 5:30 a.m. local time.



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Stewart Perry said he, his wife, Kathy, and daughter were flying on an American Airlines flight from Sacramento on Monday to Philadelphia, with a quick transfer in Phoenix. From Philadelphia, they traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to receive his son's remains.

For unknown reasons, Perry said, the flight to Phoenix was 45 minutes late. The crew feared the delay might cause the Perrys miss their connecting flight.

So, when the plane landed in Phoenix, the captain made an announcement for all passengers to remain seated and to let a "special military family" exit the aircraft first, Perry said.

Several passengers in first class began to boo and complain, Perry said........................

[Arkansas Granny]

1. How disgusting. I wonder how many of those who booed consider themselves to be"patriots".

[lunasun]

2. First class Muricans first damn dit!

[heaven05]

3. Doesn't surprise me

americans like the ones that booed are in the catbird seat now. They WILL NOT be denied, anything. These types can be rude, condescending and openly show their stupidity without shame now that their fuhrer is climbing out of the toilet to eventually plop onto the bathroom floor at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Time, Jan 20, 1917--uhhh2017. White privilege, white supremacy, even used against a white soldier who died in the line of duty. Americans are on a downward spiral with no bottom in sight. Be aware people of color and/or 'resisters' of fascism, racism, sexism, very aware of your surroundings at all times. As before the enemy is not known and the cowards will be emboldened to form racist lynch mobs openly now do their evil and fade into the population landscape, as they did for so many generations before in this racist republic.

[get the red out]

4. Sureal

There is a FB page I was invited to join, and did join, for liberals who compete in dog agility. One woman was shunned by people she considered friends pre-Trump at a competition over the weekend because they know she voted for Hillary. That is INSANE! A venue for playing with your dogs and hanging out with other dog lovers, usually all about the dogs, whose talents we are demonstrating, turned into hate politics. I am horrified by how Trump worship has taken people over, nobody at trials seemed to care if someone voted for Romney or not four years ago, when I first started competing. This change in people just in normal daily activities is scary.

[DURHAM D]

5. The first class passengers were not told they were a Gold Star

family. They were just told to remain seated so the family could make a flight connection.

I think the family is trumping this up.

[marybourg]

7. They were told, according to the article,

"a special military family". We're at war. Two and two?

[marybourg]

6. Our new overlords have told us

( and indeed showed us) that we no longer need be "politically correct", that is, civil to each other. Expect much more boorish behavior.

[dhill926]

8. what in the holy hell of fuck....

assholes....

[Skittles]

9. Trump voters

no doubt about it

[petronius]

10. We don't have a caste system nor royalty in this country; members of the military

are not people for whom we automatically step aside and give precedence to. By extension, military families are not people for whom we automatically step aside and give precedence. If I'd heard that pilot's request, as described, I wouldn't have wasted time booing but I would have ignored it.

In contrast, if the pilot had said that any of the following were in danger of missing a connection:

* family (military or not) going to retrieve the body of a loved one,
* family rushing to a funeral or deathbed,
* any random passenger with a tight connection

then I would happily have helped out.

(And given that we clearly live in a country that is chock full of jingoistic uber-'patriots', some of whom likely work for airlines, I don't agree that Gold Star Family is the obvious inference to have drawn from the pilot's request, as described.)

[DURHAM D]

11. Thank you.