I'm appalled and ashamed that not a single one of you was willing to inconvenience yourselves in order to give up your seat to a young soldier on a 14 day leave from the war in Iraq who was trying to get home to see his wife and baby.  That three hours you would have spent waiting for the next flight would have meant you missed your favorite TV program or were late for a meeting or started your vacation a few hours later than planned.  But for Jarod it meant three less hours he gets to spend with the baby he hasn't seen in eight months and the wife he only had a couple precious months to be with before he went off to fight.  He gets fourteen lousy days before he has to go back to the desert to risk his life.  And no matter what you think of this war or the reasons it's being fought, there is no excuse for not feeling compassion and appreciation for the men and women who are fighting it.  Remember on 9/11 how pissed we were and how we vowed revenge on the perpatrators of such horror?  Well guys like Jarod answered that call and while we have all gotten on with our own lives they are still out there, sleeping in ditches, hungry and thirsty and dirty and a long long way from home, doing their jobs, risking their lives, missing their families. 

I hope you are all ashamed of yourselves as I'm ashamed of you for taking those three precious hours away from this family.  I hope whatever it was you were rushing off to was as important as Jarod spending a few extra hours watching his son sleep, holding his wife, being spoiled by his mother. 

Personally, I can't think of anything more important than that.