Well Round 2

Well I thought I was done posting today and I was just told that I needed to post something else so here's a short little story I've rewritten form a reading I heard a long while ago. and without any more jibber-jabber on my part here's "The Soldier and the Little Girl."

A few months ago I was coming home from Oklahoma and while I was heading to my gate all of the sudden I heard these people clap and cheer and then all of the sudden moving through the terminal was a group of soldiers in there camos, as they were moving to their gate everyone was cheering and clapping and when I saw those soldiers about 30 or 40 of them being applauded it hit me I’m not alone I’m not the only red blooded American that still loves the country and supports our troops. So we’re clapping and just when I thought I couldn’t be any more proud of my country I saw this little girl no more than six or seven years old ran up to one of the male soldiers kneeled down and said hi. The little girl then asked him if he would give something to her daddy for her, and the young soldier who didn’t look any older than maybe twenty-two said he would try and what did she want to give her daddy. Then suddenly the little girl grabbed the neck of the soldier and gave him the biggest hug she could muster and then kissed on the cheek the mother of the little girl who said her daughter’s name was Courtney said her husband was a marine and had been in Iraq for eleven months now as she was explaining who much the young Courtney missed her father the young soldier began to tear up. When this temporarily single mother was done explaining her situation all the soldier’s huddled together and one of the other service men pulled out a military walkie-talkie they started playing with the device and began talking back and forth to it. After about ten to fifteen seconds of this the young soldier walked back over to Courtney bent down and said this to her “I spoke to your daddy and he told me to give this to you” he then hugged this little girl that he just met and gave her a kiss on the cheek he finished with saying that he loves you more than anything and he’s coming home very soon. The mom at this point was crying almost uncontrollably and the soldier stood to his feet all the soldiers saluted Courtney and her mom I was standing no more than six feet from this whole event. As the soldier began to leave heading toward their gate people resumed their applause and as I stood their applauding and looking around there were very few dry eye including my own that young soldier in one of the last acts of selflessness turned around and blew a kiss to Courtney with a tear rolling down his cheek.