A Day in the Life of a Hero
Wednesday, 24 May 2006 | 161 readers so far
The Gunn Nutt has an update on soldier Joshua Sparling, who was injured in Iraq.
You may not remember Joshua but I do, because Joshua is the soldier who received a card through the Red Cross wishing that he would die.
On the way to his first surgery on November 24th, the Red Cross gave Joshua a card. Josh thanked them for the card and opened it the next day. The card said, “Have a great time in the war and have a great time dieing in the war.†Joshua hung the card on the wall of his hospital room as an incentive to get well so he could go back to Iraq and finish the job.
Brian Kilmeade from Fox News and Colonel Oliver North came by the hospital just before Christmas and saw the card. They were appalled that someone would send such a card. The story made the news on Fox and Friends. Sean Hannity was made aware of the card and interviewed Joshua on his radio show.
I don’t cry easily, but reading the letter from Josh’s dad brough tears to my eyes. Go read.
1 May 24th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
Kittymama says:
We may not be able to tell the woman in the story what we think, but we can tell Spirit what we think of their “customer service” to an American hero. Here’s a link
https://www.spiritair.com/././welcome.aspx?pg=feedback
2 May 24th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
GunnNutt says:
Thanks for the link, Trevor. Your writing is helping to inform and encourage a lot more John Does.
3 May 26th, 2006 at 1:10 am
alisa says:
okay you are right, that did bring tears to my eyes.
I personally witnessed people giving up their seats to Marines traveling home for leave on the flight that was boarding at the gate next to mine and it was a tear jerker then. People were clapping as the Marines boarded their flight home.
There will always be people like the woman in that letter, but there will also always be people like the businessmen and companies like Northwest airlines.