OVER TO HIM & SAID '! EXCUSE ME  SIR BUT ARE YOU FRANCO

HARRIS?'

THE MAN REPLIED 'YES I AM' & THEN BEING SUCH A  BIG STEELER

FAN THAT HE IS ASKED HIM IF HE COULD  HAVE A PIC OF  HIM.

FRANCO WAS AGREEABLE TO THIS. AFTER  TAKING THE PIC THEY

TALKED FOR A FEW MINUTES & HE  TOLD HIM HE WAS ON HIS WAY

BACK TO IRAQ. FRANCO ACKNOWLEDGED HIS SADNESS & GAVE  HIM

ENCOURAGEMENT & SAFE RETURN. THEY THEN SHOOK HANDS &  PARTED

ON THEIR WAYS... THE END OF THE  STORY YOU WOULD THINK,  BUT

NOT  SO....

YOU SEE AFTER AWHILE THE SOLDIER'S NAME WAS  ANNOUNCED OVER
THE LOUD SPEAKER TO COME TO THE DESK...WHICH HE  DID... ONCE

THERE THE LADY BEHIND THE COUNTER  INFORMED HIM THAT THERE

WAS AN EMPTY SEAT IN FIRST CLASS  & SHE WAS GOING TO BUMP

HIM UP TO THAT SEAT IF IT WAS OK  WITH HIM. HE SAID HE

DIDN'T CARE WHERE HE SAT IN THE PLANE AS LONG AS HE MADE  IT

TO ATLANTA TO CATCH THE ARMY PLANE. SO SHE INFORMED HIM

THAT HE WAS NOW GOING FIRST CLASS TO ATLANTA. HE THANKED

HER & WENT BACK TO TELL EVERYONE  AS HE WAITED TO BOARD THE

PLANE. ONCE HE WAS SEATED ON THE  PLANE HE WAS WAVING OUT

THE WINDOW TO HIS DAD & PAP AS  HE FELT A HAND ON HIS  LEG.

HE TURNED TO HIS SIDE & THERE WAS FRANCO SITTING IN THE

SEAT NEXT TO HIM!!! NEEDLESS TO  SAY   THEY TALKED  ALL THE

WAY TO ATLANTA ABOUT THE  STEELERS & THEN PARTED WITH FRANCO

TAKING HIS ADDRESS & GIVING HIS  SIGNED TICKET STUB TO THE

SOLDIER AS VALIDATION OF THEIR TRIP TOGETHER. THIS WAS A

TRIP NOT OF SADNESS & LONELINESS  BUT ONE THIS SOLDIER  WILL

NEVER FORGET & WILL  TALKABOUT FOREVER THANKS TO  FRANCO

HARRIS. THIS ACT OF KINDNESS &  GENEROSITY FROM THIS MAN IS

ONETHAT WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS. IN MY  OPINION, FRANCO HARRIS

IS 'THE MANOF ALL MEN'!! I WISH I COULD THANK HIM  FOR

MAKING A SOLDIER'S LONELY FLIGHT  BACK TO WAR ONE OF  HIS

ULTIMATE LIFETIME EXPERIENCES THAT  HE WILL TALK ABOUT

FOREVER.  

THANK YOU MR.FRANCO HARRIS
A SOLDIER'S  AUNT