Awesome Senior Moment

          Awesome Senior Moment
          
          Here's a quote from a government employee who
          witnessed a recent interaction between an elderly woman
          and an antiwar protester in a Metro station in DC.
          
          There were protesters on the train platform handing
          out pamphlets on the evils of America. I politely
          declined to take one.
          
          An elderly woman was behind me getting off the
          escalator and a young (20-ish) female protester offered her a
          pamphlet, which she politely declined.
          
          The young protester put her hand on the old woman's
          shoulder as a gesture of friendship and in a very soft
          voice said,
          
          "Lady, don't you care about the children of Iraq?"
          
          The old woman looked up at her and said,
          
          "Honey, my father died in France during World War II,
          
          I lost my husband in Korea, and a son in Vietnam.
          
          All three died so you could have the right to stand
          here and bad mouth our country.
          
          If you touch me again, I'll stick this umbrella up
          your ass and open it."