Nice story!

 

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Username: Wingmanalive

A pic is worth 1000 posts!!

Post Number: 13176
Registered: Jun-06
Great story.
Now aren't you all glad you are Steeler Fans!!!




Wow - in these days of hearing about Michael Vick and other not so great examples in the pro's, this is nice to read!




LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT ONE SOLDIER'S RETURN FLIGHT TO IRAQ

HE SAW A MAN GO INTO THE BATHROOM AT THE PITTSBURGH AIRPORT & THOUGHT HE RECOGNIZED HIM. WHEN THE MAN CAME OUT HE WENT OVER TO HIM & SAID 'EXCUSE ME SIR BUT ARE YOU FRANCO HARRIS?'

THE MAN REPLIED 'YES I AM' & THEN BEING SUCH A BIG STEELER FAN THAT HE IS ASKED HIM IF HE COULD HAVE A PIC OF HIM.

FRANCO WAS AGREEABLE TO THIS. AFTER TAKING THE PIC THEY TALKED FOR A FEW MINUTES & HE TOLD HIM HE WAS ON HIS WAY BACK TO IRAQ FRANCO ACKNOWLEDGED HIS SADNESS & GAVE HIM ENCOURAGEMENT & SAFE RETURN. THEY THEN SHOOK HANDS & PARTED

ON THEIR WAYS.... THE END OF THE STORY YOU WOULD THINK, BUT

NOT SO....

YOU SEE AFTER AWHILE THE SOLDIER'S NAME WAS ANNOUNCED OVER THE LOUD SPEAKER TO COME TO THE DESK....WHICH HE DID... ONCE THERE THE LADY BEHIND THE COUNTER INFORMED HIM THAT THERE WAS AN EMPTY SEAT IN FIRST CLASS & SHE WAS GOING TO BUMP HIM UP TO THAT SEAT IF IT WAS OK WITH HIM. HE SAID HE DIDN'T CARE WHERE HE SAT IN THE PLANE AS LONG AS HE MADE IT TO ATLANTA TO CATCH THE ARMY PLANE. SO SHE INFORMED HIM THAT HE WAS NOW GOING FIRST CLASS TO ATLANTA . HE THANKED HER & WENT BACK TO TELL EVERYONE AS HE WAITED TO BOARD THE PLANE. ONCE HE WAS SEATED ON THE PLANE HE WAS WAVING OUT THE WINDOW TO HIS DAD & PAP AS HE FELT A HAND ON HIS LEG.

HE TURNED TO HIS SIDE & THERE WAS FRANCO SITTING IN THE SEAT NEXT TO HIM!!! NEEDLESS TO SAY THEY TALKED ALL THE WAY TO ATLANTA ABOUT THE STEELERS & THEN PARTED WITH FRANCO TAKING HIS ADDRESS & GIVING HIS SIGNED TICKET STUB TO THE SOLDIER AS VALIDATION OF THEIR TRIP TOGETHER. THIS WAS A
TRIP NOT OF SADNESS & LONELINESS BUT ONE THIS SOLDIER WILL NEVER FORGET & WILL TALK ABOUT FOREVER THANKS TO FRANCO HARRIS. THIS ACT OF KINDNESS & GENEROSITY FROM THIS MAN IS ONE THAT WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS.

IN MY OPINION, FRANCO HARRIS IS 'THE MAN OF ALL MEN'!! I WISH I COULD THANK HIM FOR MAKING A SOLDIER'S LONELY FLIGHT BACK TO WAR ONE OF HIS ULTIMATE LIFETIME EXPERIENCES THAT HE WILL TALK ABOUT FOREVER.

THANK YOU MR. FRANCO HARRIS

A SOLDIER'S AUNT

PIC ENCLOSED











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Sorry for the caps. It was emailed to me like that.
 

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Username: Project6

Post Number: 14703
Registered: Dec-03
^^^Upload
 

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Username: Hawaiian_time

Kanaka freak...

Post Number: 1791
Registered: Apr-06
Immaculate sendoff!
 

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Username: Pitbullguy

The poster formerly kn...

Post Number: 2757
Registered: Oct-06
omg Franco is HYYOOOGGGEEEE compared to that soldier.
 

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Username: Denali_on_22s

The kids like my rhyme...

Post Number: 3893
Registered: Feb-06
franco is a giant and a badazz, fyi.
 

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Username: Shortysetnies

Rock Vegas, NC US

Post Number: 1924
Registered: Mar-06
I wish all soldiers were treated like this. Anyone willing to die, so I can live, is a hero in my book
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