Fallen Soldier Delta Flight: Passengers Honored to Accompany Fallen Soldier
By Zachary Stieber
Epoch Times
November 1, 2013
A fallen soldier was on a Delta flight on Thursday, and passengers were honored to hear that they were on the same plane as the soldier.
The pilot told passengers over the PA system about 45 minutes prior to landing that the plane was transporting the soldier.
Everyone was told to wait several minutes after landing so that the military escort could get off first, a passenger wrote on the travel blog Johnny Jet. Los Angeles fire trucks greeted the plane with a water canon salute.
A military officer came onto the plane before the passengers disembarked and thanked them.
“I just addressed the escort. It is a sworn oath to bring home, to the family, the fallen,” he said. “Today you all did that, you are all escorts, escorts of the heart.”
The passenger wrote: “As you can imagine, everyone was silent, no one got up, not even that person from the back row who pretends they don’t speak English so they can be first off the plane. I’m sure most had meteor-sized lumps in their throats and tears in their eyes like I did.”
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As of November 2 at 7:00 pm the count is 1,682,367. What do you think it will be by the 11th for Veterans Day?
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