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MililaniBuckeye

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    • Thank goodness for these. I'm returning from visiting my daughters and son-in-law in LA, and had to go to the airport about five hours earlier than initially planned (my kids are also flying out, to Osaka while I'm going back to Honolulu, and our flights are five hours apart). I can't check my bags in until four hours prior to departure, so had I have about four hours to kill. I thought I was doomed to sitting by the fucking Starbucks for four hours until I heard the announcement for the USO. It's about 200 yards across the street from the terminal, and this place rocks. Snacks, sodas, coffee, working wi-fi, public computers (which I'm on now), a shower, and a big screen TV, all for free to active duty and retired military. It's staffed by volunteers, and I used to pull two-hour graveyard shifts at the Honolulu USO decades ago, so now I guess it's come full circle. I'll have to make a donation to the USO once I get back to the islands.
     
    I love USOs. When I was PCSing to Germany I got stuck at the Dallas airport for about half a day. I was able to take the whole family there. They had everything to keep a 10 and 5 year old happy while we waited. I tried to donate that day but they refused my money to the point of taking it out of the donation jar and handing it back to me.
     
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    It's nice to read uplifting crap in a bad year. Whenever I hear of the USO, I think of a Billy Joel line from Allentown, from my childhood, that I have always found sweet: "And their mothers with the USO, ask them to dance, dance with them slow."
     
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    The KSB said:
    I love USOs. When I was PCSing to Germany I got stuck at the Dallas airport for about half a day. I was able to take the whole family there. They had everything to keep a 10 and 5 year old happy while we waited. I tried to donate that day but they refused my money to the point of taking it out of the donation jar and handing it back to me.
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    I dropped a fiver in the jar before I left, and will likely donate to them on-line later. Super friendly staff...
     
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    Not the USO but heading out for this deployment we stopped in New Hampshire. Met by a group called the Pease Greeters.

    Get off the plane and there were about 150 people to meet us, walking through the corridor was a shock as they lined the walls. It was a parade of shaking hands, hugs, cheers, it was such overwhelming kindness. They had food, coffee, games, a photographer, everything was free. I was so appreciative and touched.

    It was on the level of the hug lady, but with so many more people.
     
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    kinch said:
    It's nice to read uplifting crap in a bad year. Whenever I hear of the USO, I think of a Billy Joel line from Allentown, from my childhood, that I have always found sweet: "And their mothers with the USO, ask them to dance, dance with them slow."
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    Whenever I hear of USO, I think of Bob Hope.....

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    https://www.uso.org/stories/154-bob-hope-the-uso-s-one-man-morale-machine
     
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