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NousDefionsDoc 01-12-2005 14:14

What about this!!!!
 
Subject: Marine refused service at local store

Thought I would pass this along.

On December 19th, 2004, my brother Jason F. Young Lance Corporal in the United States Marines was refused service at a convenience store named One Stop Grocery and Grill at 2001 8th Ave. in downtown Fort Worth, Texas.

He was refused service because he is a Marine.

He went in to the store and asked the clerk (a man of middle eastern descent) for a can of tobacco, at which point the clerk asked him if he was in the military. (He had on a USMC shirt) After my brother replied, "yes sir" the man said nothing to him and looked at the other middle eastern man in the back of the store. Then both men proceeded to go in to the storeroom and did not come out. My brother yelled back to them a time or two and they did not respond.

Jason waited a few minutes and finally left the store.

I am very proud of the way that my brother reacted to the situation. I can honestly say if it had been me I would have cleared their counter and taken my can of tobacco. It is not fair that these people come into our country and enjoy the freedoms that my brother and so many others have fought for. They do not respect our service men and women who have died for them to be able to be here. They do not respect our country, and personally I think they need to go back to where they came from.

My main point in writing this is to get the word out about this particular store and discourage people from shopping there. If they can't respect or even sell to the people that are responsible for the rights they have, then they don't deserve to be in business.

Please email this to everyone you know to discourage them from shopping at this store.

Heather M. Dowell

CPTAUSRET 01-12-2005 14:26

Was that in a local paper?

Hard to imagine this going over well with the local Ft Worth citizenry.

NousDefionsDoc 01-12-2005 14:35

I saw it in email format.

CPTAUSRET 01-12-2005 15:07

Here's hoping it makes the local papers!

Kyobanim 01-12-2005 15:59

Did you check snopes.com?

NousDefionsDoc 01-12-2005 16:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kyobanim
Did you check snopes.com?

No, they suck

NousDefionsDoc 01-12-2005 16:32

Now I did, both for the title and the girl's name. Nothing.

Found this though:

Newspaper

Apparently the same story in a local paper. I didn't sign up.

Sweetbriar 01-12-2005 16:36

Try this

Ambush Master 01-12-2005 17:28

This must have been buried in the back of The Startlegram. I didn't hear anything about it on the news here !! I'll look through the last few days papers and watch for more.

Kyobanim 01-12-2005 18:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sweetbriar
Try this

Works for me. Thanks for the link.

NDD, I tend not to believe everything passed around in email. There's been so much BS out there.

Middle eastern people in the states complain about the way they're treated. Maybe they out to police their own community before they start bitching

Gypsy 01-12-2005 19:24

Just imagine the "outrage" had this situation been reversed.


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