Wouldn't you have loved to been in this grocery store when this happened? (this was an email I received)?

One of my sons serves in the military.
He is stationed stateside, here in California He called me yesterday to let me know how warm and welcoming people were to him and his troops everywhere they go.

Telling me how people shake their hands and thank them for being willing to serve and fight, not only our own freedoms but so that others may have them too.

Then he told me about an incident in the grocery store he stopped at yesterday, on his way home from the base. He said that several people were in the line ahead of him, including a woman dressed in a burkha.

He said when she got to the cashier, she made a loud remark about the U.S. flag lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock. The cashier reached up and touched the pin and said, 'Yes, I always wear it proudly, because I'm an American.'

The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi.

Then, a gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward, putting his arm around my son's shoulders and nodding towards my son, said in a calm and gentle voice 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 check-out 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.'

Everyone within hearing distance cheered!

Good if it is true, they really don't need to be in our country, and making remarks like that anyways, at least she was kindly told this, where as if we were in her country and remarked something like that we would have been executed in a heart beat!

That piece of fiction is so old it has grown hair! It never happened. It's been passed around by e-mail for years. How do I know this? Because Iraqi women don't wear burkas!

I've heard similar stories like that. Who knows if it really true but it is a good one.

According to Snopes, this is "undetermined".

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/lapelpin.as...

That being said, I doubt it is real. I didn't know that Iraqi women wore burqas. Afghani women were forced to, and some of the more fundamentalist women in Saudi and Iran do, but not Iraq. They wore