- Reaction score
- 5
- Points
- 430
Well done to an unknown soldier
The other day as I was walking to work, a small black sports car pulled in to the curb beside me. The window on the passenger side went down and the driver, a clean-cut young man, called me over. Expecting to be asked for directions I stepped towards the car and bent over to look in the window.
The young man leaned towards me and offered me his hand. I shook it as he said he wanted to thank the first soldier he saw this week. And then he went on to explain. I expected him to relate something about the global “we” defending the free world, but his intent was much more personal than that.
His girlfriend, whom he described as “blonde, beautiful and petite” has apparently been crossing the country westward by bus this summer. While on a bus crossing the prairies (he wasn’t more specific) she was accosted by an undesirable entity whose advances quickly turned into harassment. Also on that bus was a soldier. That soldier stepped up and did the right thing. He blocked the harassment and convinced the driver to drop the miscreant off at the next stop. The young man wanted to thank me, as the available representative of the military, for that soldier’s actions.
I don’t know who that soldier was, or why he was on the bus. Service corps or combat arms, Reserve or Regular Force, traveling on leave or for duty …. we may never know. But I would like to forward that young man’s gratitude, and add to it my own, for seeing the right thing done. Unknown and obviously not looking for recognition or reward, that soldier is an excellent example of our young men and women in uniform today, each of whom have stepped forward to do what they can to protect those unable to defend themselves.
Thank you soldier, you make us all proud.
The other day as I was walking to work, a small black sports car pulled in to the curb beside me. The window on the passenger side went down and the driver, a clean-cut young man, called me over. Expecting to be asked for directions I stepped towards the car and bent over to look in the window.
The young man leaned towards me and offered me his hand. I shook it as he said he wanted to thank the first soldier he saw this week. And then he went on to explain. I expected him to relate something about the global “we” defending the free world, but his intent was much more personal than that.
His girlfriend, whom he described as “blonde, beautiful and petite” has apparently been crossing the country westward by bus this summer. While on a bus crossing the prairies (he wasn’t more specific) she was accosted by an undesirable entity whose advances quickly turned into harassment. Also on that bus was a soldier. That soldier stepped up and did the right thing. He blocked the harassment and convinced the driver to drop the miscreant off at the next stop. The young man wanted to thank me, as the available representative of the military, for that soldier’s actions.
I don’t know who that soldier was, or why he was on the bus. Service corps or combat arms, Reserve or Regular Force, traveling on leave or for duty …. we may never know. But I would like to forward that young man’s gratitude, and add to it my own, for seeing the right thing done. Unknown and obviously not looking for recognition or reward, that soldier is an excellent example of our young men and women in uniform today, each of whom have stepped forward to do what they can to protect those unable to defend themselves.
Thank you soldier, you make us all proud.
