gcintheme:

I think one of the proudest moments of my life was probably almost ten years ago (that long ago?) a soldier was sexually harassing my mother at a checkpoint like they almost always do.

My father was not standing near us but he finished his check and came over and told the soldier bothering her to stop.

The soldier said in broken Arabic, “Is she your wife?”

And my father responded in perfect English “She is a human being and this is her country, not yours.”

Even the other soldiers stopped what they were doing and just looked guilty.

This is beautiful.