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Gold Star Family Says It Was Booed By First-Class Passengers On Flight To Pick Up Son’s Body
“It made us cry some more.”
11/20/2016
A Gold Star Family on an American Airlines flight to pick up their son’s body after he was killed in Afghanistan [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/afghanistan/ ] said they were booed by first-class travelers. 
The reason? Passengers in those pricey seats were annoyed that the family was allowed to disembark first to catch a connecting flight, according to the slain soldier’s father, Stewart Perry.
“It was just disgusting behavior from people in first class [ http://www.recordnet.com/news/20161118/gold-star-family-of-slain-stockton-soldier-booed-on-flight ]; it was terrible to see,” Perry told the Stockton Record. “You could see the disappointment from the flight crew.”
Perry was traveling with his wife and daughter from Sacramento to Philadelphia via Phoenix, but they were in danger of missing a connection when their first flight was delayed. Once the plane landed, the captain asked everyone to remain seated so “a special military family” could leave the plane first, the Record reported. 
That’s when the boos and comments began. 
“Some people were saying ‘This is just baloney,’ and ‘I paid for first-class for this?’” Perry told the Record. 
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gold-star-family-booed_us_58325cbfe4b099512f837ef5 [with embedded video, and comments]