Father of fallen soldier says plane passengers booed family

I saw this story a couple of weeks ago, and couldn't believe it - so I didn't. I chased down the details of it and got an entirely different picture.

The Perry family was flying from Sacramento, CA to Phoenix, AZ, ultimately traveling to Dover to meet their Fallen Warrior. For totally unrelated reasons, the 1hr 45min flight was 45min late taking off.

First piece of missing key info: Everyone on board was already a little bit tense because they were late and might miss connecting flights, et al.

When the aircraft landed in Phoenix, the Captain asked that everyone remain seated while a "special Military Family" exited the aircraft (he didn't identify them as a Gold Star Family).

Second key piece of missing info: The Perrys were not identified as a Gold Star Family.

My conclusion, the passenger(s) being vilified here were...

1: Unaware the Perrys were a Gold Star Family and therefore can't be criticized for being disrespectful to them or their loss.

2: In light of the fact that the flight was already 45 min. late, it's understandable people might be a little tense and given to some kind of exasperated utterance when asked to wait even a couple of minutes longer.

I'm confident that if the other passengers had known they were being asked to wait another moment or two for a Gold Star Family to deplane, they would have respectfully waited.

What grieves me is that this not-completely-accurate aspect of the situation is being posted and repeated, while American Airlines and its employees are not given credit for what they did to ensure this Family arrived at their destination ASAP. Not only did AA get them to their destination as quickly as possible, the Captain of their connecting flight leaving from Phoenix delayed his departure 40 min. for them. That's the real story!

poor state of affairs when the general populous is more absorbed with their own sorted lives than those whom have sacrificed...

It made it to AP, but the truth is that the majority of news networks are ran by the modern day liberals. They would cheer those that booed.

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.”


― John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy