Comments on: ONT to BTR http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/ont-to-btr/ falling indelibly into the past Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:09:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: liz http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/ont-to-btr/#comment-1015 liz Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:50:55 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=478#comment-1015 <p>Wow.  I had a far less intense, but still affecting experience yesterday on the last leg of my journey home from Africa.  </p> <p> We were standing in line for reentry into the US, along with a huge crowd of people, when a Customs official got on the loudspeaker and said that anyone in active military service (we had a group of army guys on the flight from Frankfurt) could come to the front of the line: “Thank you, and welcome home.” There was a brief moment of silence, and then the entire crowd burst into applause for several minutes.  It was pretty moving. </p> Wow.  I had a far less intense, but still affecting experience yesterday on the last leg of my journey home from Africa. 

We were standing in line for reentry into the US, along with a huge crowd of people, when a Customs official got on the loudspeaker and said that anyone in active military service (we had a group of army guys on the flight from Frankfurt) could come to the front of the line: “Thank you, and welcome home.” There was a brief moment of silence, and then the entire crowd burst into applause for several minutes.  It was pretty moving.

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