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Give thanks for family members who're still around,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
So the morning I received the sad news was a blur. Packing. Polishing shoes. Booking the plane and car. In less than three hours I discovered myself in the airport, waiting for a flight north.
After i finally reached my gate, I wasn't really paying attention to what was going on around me. I was just glad I had been there and happy that my plane seemed to be on time. As we all know,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], things rarely run this smoothly when it comes to air travel these days.
Then,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], suddenly,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I had been raised out of my seat with a patriotic tune being played with a small military band which had appeared out of nowhere. Then i noticed several dozen people holding American flags.
I figured at that time that Al would have been greatly amused by all this. A large send-off for that Korean War veteran he was.
However it was not for Al,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. It had been for older vets. A special Honor Flight was pulling into the gate over the hall. I burst into tears.
I am not sure why. Maybe it had been the combination of the old friend's death and also the arrival of those veterans now in their 80s and 90s, men that reminded me of my late dad, also a World War II vet. Army Air Corps.
Anyway, I had a great cry and also got going to Albany, where I cried again the following day at Al's grave. A cathartic day or two basically.
Unlike many of you who are reluctantly awaiting a flight ticket today,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], It's my job to don't mind hanging around in airports. That's a good thing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], because most of us are spending additional time there nowadays. Delays. Cancellations. Long lines.
But I've always liked airports because they bring people together people like those The second world war veterans whom we should be thankful with this Thanksgiving. It would be a significantly different world today when they hadn't done what they did all those years back. It will not be well before they'll be gone.
And for almost Two-and-a-half decades now I have made my way to avoid it towards the airport to satisfy my parents,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who flew directly into celebrate Thanksgiving beside me. In the old days I could stand in the gate and greet them as they got off their plane.
Today I'll be standing on sleep issues of security with everyone else,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], waiting for my 88-year-old mom,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who'll slowly walk around the corner and provide us a wave, eager to sit down inside my Thanksgiving table all over again.
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