So apparently the airline/airport/security people at DFW let the Army guys mom, dad, sister and brother come to the gate to say goodbye to him. I didn’t think they ever let non-passenger people come to the gate now-a-days…. maybe they were flying somewhere else? but the didn’t look like it.
In any case…. the Mom was squeezing the stuffing out of her son. The Dad was looking down at the ground while his wife hugged her son… It was really heart-wrenching.
Tall-blue-eyed guy did have an exit row seat :)
On the plane I sat next to (with an empty seat between us) a man named Godwin. Interesting guy. He’s a medical practitioner from Nigeria who spent the last month vacationing in America. He went to California, Washington, Oregon, Georgia and Texas. He was heading home, via MSP and then Amsterdam.
This lay-over is only an hour long, so not a lot of time to type. There’s snow here in MSP – though word on the street is there’s none back home.