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To Honor Our Veterans Please Boycott Delta Airlines
“On Dec. 13, 2011, Marine Lance Cpl. Christian Brown was leading his squad on a foot patrol in Afghanistan’s Helmand province when he stepped on an explosive device that blew off both his legs, one above the knee, the other below his hip,” the Washington Post reported on December 13, 2012. “He also lost part of his right index finger.”
“Last Sunday, almost exactly a year since those grievous injuries forced him to learn to walk on two successive pairs of prosthetic legs, Brown was ‘humiliated’ to the point of tears on a Delta flight from Atlanta to Washington after being clumsily wheeled to the back row of the plane, according to a complaint sent to the airline by an outraged fellow passenger.”
What is outrageous is that when several passengers on the Delta flight offered to give Brown their seats in first class, the Delta crew refused. The Washington Post reports that “Flight attendants insisted no one could move through the cabin because the doors were being closed for takeoff.”
Now you are probably wondering why a financial analyst and banker is taking an interest in wounded veterans. The answer is that my employer, Carrington Holdings, participates in a voluntary network of private companies and individuals known as the Veterans Airlift Command (VAC) that donate our Flight Crew and aircraft to move wounded veterans around the country. The VAC organized and flew over 1500 trips last year and has a growing list of over 1800 planes and pilots that are standing by to help out.
The work of the VAC and its volunteers makes a big difference. A couple of days before Christmas, our flight department at Carrington had the honor of flying Taylor and Danielle Morris home from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to their home in Iowa. Like Chris Brown, Taylor was grievously wounded in battle and required months of rehabilitation before being discharged from military service. You can see their story on YouTube.
Carrington tries to fly 15-20 missions a year and like all the participants in the VAC, supplies flight crew, aircraft, fuel, maintenance and insurance all free of cost to the Veteran and family. We believe that it is our fundamental obligation to take care of those that have sacrificed so much while protecting our freedom.
Unfortunately while the Department of Defense generally does a good job of rehabilitation of wounded veterans, the last detail – namely getting these heroes home safely and with dignity – somehow is missed. We were fortunate to be able to help this brave young man and his beautiful wife travel those last miles home in comfort and dignity that they deserve. Like all veterans, they thank us profusely. Our answer is simple: “No, thank you.”
The VAC tries to serve as many veterans as possible, but the sheer number of young men and women who return from Afghanistan, Iraq and other conflicts missing arms and legs among other severe injuries is still too great for this volunteer effort. Hundreds of wounded veterans are still compelled to fly on commercial airlines and endure the same humiliation and disrespect that Chris Brown suffered at the hands of Delta Airlines.
In fact, when the VAC cannot fulfill a mission directly with a volunteer aircraft and crew, they buy and donate airline tickets to the Veteran and his or her family. You guessed it, even on Delta Airlines in the past – not anymore.
The goal overall though, is to make certain that when commercial airlines have travelers like Chris Brown or the other thousands of severely wounded Veterans, they make generous accommodations available to treat these heroes with the respect and dignity that they deserve. Or they can refer the veterans to organizations like the VAC for more customized transportation. Working together, the commercial airlines and private organizations like the VAC can get the job done; take care of America’s Heroes.
Unfortunately when my colleagues at Carrington and many of the other organizations that participate in the VAC contacted Delta Airlines to complain about the treatment of Chris Brown and to ask for a change in policy, they were rebuffed. They sent us a form letter. But this is a case where we are not going to take no for an answer.
The only reason that the commercial airlines aren't interested in referring and taking care of the veterans is in pursuit of the Almighty Dollar. Then in further pursuit of the fictitious “On Time Departure,” they treat these brave young soldiers like excess cargo. Companies like mine won’t stand for that.
Those of us who travel as part of our jobs rightly hate commercial airlines as a business model, but my colleagues and I vehemently resent their treatment of this special group of passengers. We need your help to get this bad situation fixed. And until Delta Airlines changes its policies, the 2,500 employees of our company will no longer fly on Delta.
When our CEO, Bruce Rose put the policy out to all of our Associates, he was met with overwhelming support and expressions of pride from all corners of the country where we work. Our Company “get’s it”.
Will you join us in expressing your outrage?
First, we want you to contact Delta Airlines CEO Richard H. Anderson and his colleagues. You can click here to get the contact information for Delta (NYSE:DAL). But frankly all of the major airlines need to hear the same message.
If you share our sense of outrage at the way wounded veterans are treated by Delta Airlines and other commercial carriers, then please get involved. Something as simple as forwarding this post to you friends and colleagues is the first step. And you can tell them, as we have, that you will not fly on Delta until they change their policy towards wounded veterans.
Second and perhaps more important, we need to contact members of Congress to demand that they pressure the White House, the Transportation Safety Administration and related federal agencies to make adjustments in law and regulation to change the way that Veterans are treated when they travel on commercial airlines. The VAC web site has a number of horror stories about how wounded vets are humiliated by commercial airlines and the TSA. Perhaps it has been lost on the TSA that these are the same people that are fighting on the front lines for what the TSA is pretending to protect. This situation is outrageous and completely unnecessary, but it will be rectified when we get enough voices to demand change.
The good news is that thanks to the VAC and other organizations, a growing number of private companies and individuals are making their time and resources available to help address the needs of thousands of wounded soldiers coming home from war. We don’t yet have enough volunteers and planes to get the job done privately, but the cases where we can take these brave men and women home in comfort and dignity make the effort worthwhile.
Just look at the photo below of Taylor and Danielle Morris on their way home with our flight crew flying the VAC organized mission last week. This is about honoring our veterans and doing the right thing. Carrington and the VAC can’t do it alone – please help us to take care of the true American Heroes that have sacrificed so much protecting our freedom by making their lives just a little bit easier.

Merry Christmas
Christopher Whalen
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After he was offered a first class seat you tool. If you were two limbs down and a first class passenger offers to sit in your wheelchair and you go up front you MIGHT get emotional both happy at the show of humanity and crushed at the lack of care by corporate policy.
Shame on you for not at least trying to rub two brain cells together prior to posting.
Security guards donT fly 1st class.
Security guards for the Black Nobility's poppy fields sit in the back, with or without their limbs.
But that boy can continue to serve his masters, even in his condition. The Black Nobility will now charge interest payments on the cost of his care. It is a win-win!
Immigration Services in Southern California were instructed to get as many people as they could successfully through the system this last year and there was a huge push before the Election. They follow orders.
Banks under the control of the US Government have looted the hard earned money from the citizens and the employees in those banks are following orders.
Police in some areas are revenue generators for the city by citing “violations” rather than protecting the citizens. Some departments are reluctant to respond to calls for help. They follow orders.
As a citizen, you pay tax and support many rules and regulations including corruption across the governments that may be wrong. You follow orders.
Yes, it may be that a young man (like the 18 year old Marine that was presented an award by the Los Angeles City Council for getting through a horrific lack of upbringing and only survived by being a ward of the County from young childhood) may actually find a better life. Yes, and on the other hand they may get killed as they could in a L.A. drug war or gangster cross fire.
War is wrong as is killing. The fighters seldom are the creators. The treatment of young Americans returning from Viet Nam were shamefully treated by the people of their country. This should never happen again.
If you hate WAR then spit on yourself not the returning fighters. If you don’t like war then you need to do something to get us out of it. In that you should be brighter than most 18 year old kids due to more education and more years it is your job and my job, and we have failed. You and I have failed at keeping our young out of unneeded wars.
Yet, in voting for Obama the first time, many of us believed we would get our of at least one bad war. Troops were pulled from Iraq and then we just sent 3,000 back in. The War in Afghanistan is still killing and wounding our kids.
Obama is full tilt to disarm America to stop the killing of children by Americans and yet sends American young to kill children of others. We supposedly free others while being herded into being defenseless to enslavement ourselves.
you could just told us you've "voted for obama the first time" and stop there you idiot.
The defendents at the Nuremberg Trials were "just following orders".
The defendents at Nuremberg were officials & officers...not foot soldiers like you. Yes, I know its hard for you to understand the difference.
But try.
Maybe they should stop volunteering to be blown up?
Solves the whole problem nicely really.
To the self-aggrandizing Mr. Whalen,
It sounds like you are taking one isolated incident on board a commercial carrier and grandstanding about the VAC, as though you have the corner on honoring those who served and wounded vets.
Let me ask you a few questions. Is this a recurring theme for the commercial carriers, and specifically Delta? How many times has this happened on Delta? Are you aware that the 'policy' you refer to so self righteously refer to happens to be an FAA policy, ie no one can switch seats at that time whether they have no arms, no legs or whatever. They are certainly allowed to after the seats belt light goes off in flight, usually 20 or so minutes after takeoff. Are you further aware that to violate this policy by letting someone move around in the cabin after doors closed/pushback is to invite hefty fines from the FAA?
I fly every week, and I am a veteran so I pay close attention to the treatment of active duty and wounded veterans aboard. Over 90% of my flight experience is on Delta, and they have shown continuous courtesy, warmth, and respect for those in the armed services from my observation.
The crews go out of their way to honor these men and women when they fly on Delta. And in the case of fallen soldiers who are returning home I have been on board when they announce that, and ask us to let the escort off first.
I would recommend that instead of reacting so emotionally and coming to the rash conclusion that you did, that you gather facts. I understand that you are invested in transporting soldiers, but your acrimony towards Delta is misplaced. Rant about the FAA policies instead.It's clear to me that your agenda is a pejorative article about commercial airlines. You said as much when you admitted "Those of us who travel as part of our jobs rightly hate commercial airlines".
its a poverty draft
See the USA in a Chevrolet--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ5tKh0aBDc
Or a Ford or whatever, just not from a commercial plane.
F Obam/UAW/Chevy and Oba/Chrysler/UAW/FIAT.
I would rather see the USA in a Skynet drone or a B-52.
I've been cheerfully boycotting all of them since 911. The shit they helped pull on everyone led me to just drive everywhere.
Boycott all NWO compliant companies, maybe they will suffer. Who knows.
I too have not flown since 911, I rather stay home as to travel and get felt up by some tsa agent that barely graduated the 3rd grade
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Right On!
How comes that this valliant 'american' who kickstarted his life by living off blood money has not been given free tickets to travel around the world, business class and all?
For 'american' heroes, there is no amount of entitlement that is too big.
Your should just change your user-name to "AnBitterLittlePill".
Wow. I cannot believe I finally agree with this commie troll.
Green Arrow for you!!
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I am in my 22nd year of boycotting Delta airlines. When I am drawing my last breath I intend to be kicking Delta airlines in the ass.
F Delta Airlines. I hate how to spew CNN's shit at every turn because they are another Atlanta company. Delta has CNN's trash on their planes. CNN loves to go on and on about evil whites and the KKK. CNN and MSNBC are all about stirring up race hate along with Hollywood's racists. I cancel all their sh*t years ago. F TV and F Hollywood.
After being groped by TSA Obam goons and cooked like a frozen chicken dinner with TSA gamma rays from some GE Skynet death machine - I get to sit down and wait for a flight and CNN's TV shit is in every airport.
I may buy one of those small universal TV clickers and start turning their sh*t off. Instead I will just boycott air flight. They refused to profile for the islamics who cannot be trusted on airplanes.
If I get on another airline - I am stuck with NBC/Comcast/GE/CNBC/MSNBC crap. They show 30 Rock with that fat pig and wife beater Alec Baldwin. You either close your eyes or hopefully have a laptop not some *****ng iGadget to distract you from NBC garbage with the shitty canned laughter because it is not funny. Just sweaty Alec Baldwin spewing his hate/
Good Grief!
Lance Corporal Christian Brown was not mistreated by Delta Airlines, he was mistreated by the US government ... for dumping his sorry butt into Afghanistan in the first place. What for?
He's not a hero, he's a dupe, a sucker ... one of millions who believed, and still believe, the bilge that comes out of the various orifices of the US government ... and its commercial overlords. Cpl. Brown didn't take a blow for the flag and country, he was carelessly destroyed for the ambition of neo-conservatives and feckless politicians ... and at a remove for Delta Airlines Inc. and other multi-national corporations who profit from US military 'activities'.
Furthermore, Brown was allowed to board his flight. Keep in mind, boarding any flight is a very short-term privilege ... as the airlines are bankrupting themselves by their own success in blowing through the billions of gallons of jet fuel every year ... fuel that is used once then gone forever. Delta's so-called 'success' in this particular venture is the entire business' longer-term undoing: ditto for all the other businesses! At some point in the very near future, Brown and family will be forced to stay home and endure each other ... just like everyone else. Why? Unaffordable 'gas'.
Just like everyone else also includes the bewildered US military which cannot remove its collective head out of its ass. It treats its children like pieces of garbage ... has cost the country trillion$ ... it cannot do its job ... it has deprecated 'service' to a nonsense term ... devalued patriotism to the equivalent to theft and murder, a bad joke played on the country.
@Whalen:
That is a strange remark coming from a finance analyste ...
You offend me
You and this socialist asshole whalen who glorifies killing offend me
Here is what he said
The only reason that the commercial airlines aren't interested in referring and taking care of the veterans is in pursuit of the Almighty Dollar. Then in further pursuit of the fictitious “On Time Departure,” they treat these brave young soldiers like excess cargo. Companies like mine won’t stand for that.
I like my airlines to try to run on time. Pursuit of the almighty dollar is bad huh?
I feel sorry for that soldier for being a dupe.
However I dont feel he should expect the rules to change, most of which are imposed on the airlines by the FAA, just to suit his sorry ass. The world should revolve around the legless dupe? The airline should ignore FAA rules?
I do have a 'positive' story. The person was an active duty (and not wounded or disabled). The action was that of the flight crew and not the offical policy of the airlines.
But this did happen on a United flight. And the crew's action left me a warm feeling.
I was flying across country in November. I had the aisle seat and there was a young woman with a window seat. To be polite I made brief conversation with her. It turned out she was on her way to be deployed. Her first one.
As is the way of airlines now adays, you buy your food. As this was a 7 hour flight you either come prepared, buy your food or go hungry. It became apparent she opted for the third. As she checked the menu a few times be declined to make an order.
We were pretty much through the flight when I finally put all this togeter and realized that while they are given a per diem, it isn't much and not enough for airline food and their wages are....well...below minimum. And along with this 7 hour flight, she had another 8-9 hour flight at her connection.
So I went to the galley and asked the crew about a meal. They were a bit perplexed as to why I wanted it that late in the flight. I explained it to them so they said 'O.K.'
I went back to my seat and politely insisted that she allow me to buy her a meal and a cocktail. I ordered one also just so she would feel more comfortable.
When the airline attendant brought our food and drink, the attendant turned to me and said "give me your credit card. I'm going to make it look like I am charging you but I'm not".
Not only did they not charge me for the soldier's meal and drink, they didn't charge me for mine. Just out of the appreciation of the fact that I noticed this 'condition'.
So somewhere out there are a couple of United flight attendants that I will always think fondly of and hope I can run into them someday to thank them properly.
Good story. We need more of them here on ZH. Like your good deed, negativity, too, has a domino effect.
Does Delta include any other airline brands? I used to like Continental but they merged with United??? I cannot keep track and pretty much gave up on flying. I don't want to be groped by Dear Mullah's TSA goons or irradiated by them like a TV dinner.
Anyone who has kids or relatives in uniform needs to get them out of the military. The Joint Chiefs and Pentagon are cowards for not standing up to their evil bosses and Dear Mullah. War is Peace.
"irradiated by them like a TV dinner"
LOL
They volunteered and became mercenaries for the empire and they violated their Contitutional oaths so I have no sympathy for their plight.
On the human level, what was done to Mr. Brown was wrong but typical of the nearly government run airlines. Goodluck with your boycott, and you will probably be put on the "no-fly" list for yor efforts.
As for the VAC airservice: it just reveals how liitle the government these people "served" really gives a shit about them after their usefulness is gone.
The Founders/Framers had a Continental Army to protect the homeland. The Army was not for nation building or to conquer other lands.
Reagan pretty much avoided any of this shit then came Poppy, Clinton (Balkans for the drug dealers and Islam), Bush 2 and the Nobel Prize Winning Mullah. The 4 stooges for the Mena drug cartels, etc. The Bush klan and Clinton klan are buddies and they also love baby Allah.
This never ending war shit needs to stop. Nobody even questions it. F TV, F MSM and F Hollywood who support this evil crap.
Wounded veterans?
You mean the subhumans stupid enough to kill for the elites? The world would be a better place without them.
Let them rot in hell.
I feel for the boys and girls who are taken advantage of by all governments and all power hungry psychopaths. In their mind these psychpaths place themselves above the rest of humanity claiming the right to use others regardless of the cost. We call these psychopaths our "leaders".
I cannot blame the boys and girls who go off to war, the victims of slick advertisements convincing them that murdering others, for some purpose that they most likely cannot relate to, is honorable. Nor can I blame them for being in a situation where they have few other choices for recovering or developing a healthy self-respect.
It does not seem fitting that humans should falsely claim the right of gods or claim that they have a moral imperitive ordained by god. Defense ... I suppose so ... but murder for the profit of others or to satisfy a frail ego? It would be good if that practice stopped ... forever.
I dont blame the naive girls and boys who go off to fight the Zionist wars either.
However i am offended by this demand to coerce people to honor them with special treatment.
You honor them if you want.
The rest of us free human beings will make our own choices.
That's a little harsh, but they will surely rot in hell.
Likewise, my same wishes to you as the professional douchebag above.
Nice to see you're in the line of subhumans.
If civilization manages to survive your ilk, you will be looked back upon as animals.
I've been boycotting the airlines for about 3 years now. We all need to vote with our pocketbooks. Corporate Fascism is killing this country along with the politicians who serve them.
Merry XMAS / Locked and Loaded
+1 My man and Merry Christmas to you.
Also boycott all of TV and all of Hollywood. They keep the elites in power and brainwash the little people 24x7.
They are pedal to medal on the gun ban and trying to disarm the public. They are running public service announcements on YouTube with racist Jamie "I like killing white folks" Foxx leading the charge with other "celebs."
LOL! Junked by gun banning scum who love O TV and Hollywood plus hate whitey films by Tarantino, Weinsteins and racist Jamie Foxx.
Merry Christmas Chris,There are some of us who "Get it".Bravo to you and your buddies in aviation who care.Will forward this to other vets.
I myself, have not flown in over 15 tears. Do not foresee flying again anytime soon, most especially because of the TSA.
But I support your cause, and will forward this story to everyone on my mail list.
Kudos to you for what you are doing.
I'll throw in right here as well.
His motivations were pure...no matter what the blue nosers up thread say. I'll never fly Delta again...count on it.
An excellent way to honour the war Veterans who truly care about the (mostly dead and ignored) US Constitution, or human rights in any country, is to have a look at the quite radical 'Veterans Today' website -
An important site of US and some international dissidents, many of them military and intelligence agency veterans, who have come to intense awareness of hoaxes and deceptions of the US government
For example, Veterans Today is a leading site running stories on the many discrepancies of the Sandy Hook school shootings in Connecticut USA, and how that might well have been a 'false flag' shooting sponsored by the US government (maybe Israelis as well), with perhaps several shooters involved killing children ... and the alleged shooter Lanza perhaps killed beforehand with his body brought to the scene
Veterans Today publishes articles from diverse contributors, a few of them Israeli or US shills sometimes, but mostly they are extremely radical about the crimes of the US regime, of Israel and Zionism ...
They are the kind of Veterans who believe in the way America was supposed to be, that mythology that will likely survive America itself
http://www.veteranstoday.com/
The veterans deal suck.Maybe the best way going forward is to stay the hell out of the forces.I am not sure anyone really knows why they are fighting and for what.Media is rife with conspiracy theories - at a minimum an indication that the official narrative is highly questioned.What´s the worst that can happen.Move abroad and live on a beach in the Phillipines?
College,ROTC,the army and the continous grind if you survive that with your extremities intact.Is it really worth it?So that you can keep on paying ever increasing tax rates. I highly doubt that this will be seen as worthwile.Pull a Galt instead of becoming veteran.
Unfortunately the people who 'serve' an 'oath' to protect the precious constitution(s), of various mere states, don't realise until much too late that they're paid-killers, duped into political mass assassination for mere politicians, who don't really give a rats-ass about the constitution, or any feeble oath to protect it.
The flesh and bone of the children they corral into becoming hired-killers to protect a constitution is not something they give a damn about. Except on memorial day, when they have to lay a wreathe for the cameras to maintain the mystique of "those who served and sacrificed", for the good of the moneyed criminal parasitic cohort who effectively laugh at them.
It's far too easy for teens to get sucked into all that. The guns, the jets, the power and mobility, the money, the rank, the false self-esteem of the ideologies and wilfully limited faculties needed to kill and oppress others.
As long as teens are attracted to that, and not actively and continuously warned away from it, the more wars and criminal govts will flourish in Washington and other capitals. And the meat-products that return will be treated as a form of waste, that should have done the right-thing and died, instead of messing up the aisle ways of jets, busses and hospitals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Z9sSBfs_grc
"don't realise until much too late that they're paid-killers, duped into political mass assassination for mere politicians...."
Nevertheless, there is a percentage of them that enjoy the opportunity to be paid killers.
I think the "theory" that a dozen or so children were actually abducted to eventually end-up in the huge pedophile ring operating in New York makes as much sense as any other at this point. Parents not allowed to see bodies of the children but identified by pictures? Allegedly dead children immediately wisked-off for "autopsy" at a facility sixty miles away? Given what has been happening with the island of Jersey and many very important people in Britain being implicated (and subsequently whitewashed) I personally cannot discount this. Truth is stranger than fiction. At any rate this was obviously a false flag op as was Aurora. Did you guys see the film that went viral of the alleged father of one of the little girls allegedly killed laughing, psyching himself and his acting abilities up before a news statement? To many inconsistencies, to much that doesn't make sense, too much whitewashing.
Thanks for the article also and top of the season to all out there. We all have a lot to be grateful for.
+100 on the Sandy Hook false flag. This was a professional job. Lanza supposedly had 4 hand guns found in the school. Then we hear AR15 but they find some sort of aiga in his car. Men apprenhended outside of the school then released. I doubt this Lanza kid was capable of doing this. Ditto the case in Colorado. There is a good video on youtube about a second or third shooter.
Don't forget the Saudis are buddies with Israel. They both back you know who in the white hut.
I feel for the the Marine and his family, but I see too many military that don't give a rats ass for anything but an advanced paygrade. Very few Veterans understand what is happening to America because they are in a military financial cocoon that is fairy-land to main stream American economic reality. Questioning it is extremely dangerious.Most still believe in the moslem boogy men and torture as an acceptable means to victory and the continued drone attacks as American as apple pie. I call bullshit. When you put yourself in a position to fight for a questionable government with highly questionable motives, then you should be ready for the push back from those that don't like those questionable motives.
I am sure there were hundreds of honorable soldiers dying during the last of the Roman Empire expansion, but in the end they are still fighting, dying and getting their legs blown away in the last days by today's Roman Empire expansions.
Since you felt compelled to post your off topic and inane opinion, so do I feel compelled to do likewise.
My Merry Christmas wish for you is to die a very slow and excruciating painful death from cancer so you will have adequate time to reflect on your miserable existence.
A good many of our fellow Americans are in the military because there are no other jobs available to them due to rancid self absorbed morons like yourself. You should be ashamed.
On a more upbeat tone...
I offer my sincere admiration and respect for RC Whalen and VAC for the work they do for wounded veterans and I will send a letter of protest to Delta for their despicable actions and will urge others to do so as well.
This work and sacrifice gives us all inspiration to do more to make the world we live in a better place.
My very best wishes for you and yours on this holiday season.