Just a Misunderstanding?:

Oct. 4, 2007

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In case you missed it, here is a report in the San Francisco Chronicle about the gaffe by the airport authority in Oakland, Calif. They wouldn’t let a planeload of marines into the passenger terminal during a two-hour layover on their way back to Hawaii after a tour in Iraq.

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