[Joe Wicked]

We had several Marines on our flight yesterday. The captain made a special announcement thanking them and the whole plane stood up and applauded them. One of the young guys (looked like he just graduated boot camp) was overwhelmed by the whole thing. He looked like a deer in the headlights not knowing what to do, and when a guy told him he has already done it, he had a tear in his eye. He said that never in his life had he expected complete strangers to look at him that way. When he stepped off the plane, he had his head held a lot higher than before.