Airfare Discounts for Troops Fading?

[unhappycamper]

Airfare Discounts for Troops Fading?
Boston Herald | November 19, 2007


Maybe it was naive for Evelyn Rohrbacher to expect a military discount for her Marine grandson's Thanksgiving flight home.

Last week almost nobody showed up at Boston's Veteran's Day parade.

And in Cambridge, some petty, nasty complainer begrudged the troops toiletries Boy Scouts had collected for them at polling places. Worse, Cambridge officials caved to the petty and nasty.

Nearly every day there's another story detailing how even the government fails to "support the troops," as we say today, from ill- equipped soldiers on the ground to inadequate health care, particularly mental health care, back home.

But Evelyn Rohrbacher, 72, knew about the airline discounts. She comes from a military family. Her husband Curtis, 77, served with the Navy in Korea. Her son-in-law Derek served with the Marines in Vietnam. The two grandsons she's helped raise since their mother died are both Marines: Harold's son, Derek Surette, 24, is in Iraq now. Adam Hinckley, 19, is at Camp Lejeune, S.C., in the Marine reserves.

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So Nana, not an online type of traveler, got on the phone to airlines serving T.F. Greene Airport near her North Easton home. She spent hours calling Continental, Delta, US Airways. The prices were $800, $1,100, $1,200 round trip.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,156517,00.html?wh=wh

[Submariner]

1. Yeah.....but for today only, Bush and Cheney let Vets get in National Parks for free!

Now who went and said Bush doesn't support the troops? What a swell guy.

from Factiva (no link)

Travel savvy
11/19/2007
The Oregonian

Vets get in free

Military members, active and retired, and their families are invited to visit any National Park Service site today, free of charge, in honor of Veterans Day. Find park maps and information at www.nps.gov . For specific national parks commemorating service veterans by preserving battlefields, forts and other sites with military significance, check www.nps.gov/pub_affairs/honor.htm .