Delta Flight Passengers Angry After Crew Shows Ultimate Disrespect For Fallen Soldier

A Georgia doctor was instructed by Delta Airlines employees that she wasn’t allowed to sing the national anthem on a flight in an effort to honor a fallen soldier.

Dr. Pamela Gaudry, a Savannah, Georgia, physician, said she and other passengers were told “to stay quietly” in their seats while an honor guard took the fallen soldier’s casket from the plane. A flight attendant explained to her that singing the anthem might make passengers from other countries uncomfortable.

“I couldn’t put up with that,” she told The Associated Press, according to the New York Post. “I wouldn’t be offended if I was in their country.”

In a video posted to Facebook, Gaudry said she asked other passengers to join her in singing the anthem when she saw the casket being taken from the plane.

“The chief flight attendant came back to my seat and she kneeled down and she said, ‘It is against company policy to do what you’re doing,'” she explained in the clip.

“And I said, ‘The national anthem? And there’s a soldier onboard?’ And she said, ‘Yes, you cannot sing the national anthem. It is against company policy.'”

A Delta spokesman declined to comment on Gaudry’s claims.

“There is not a policy about singing the national anthem, period,” spokesman Anthony Black told the Post.

Many readers sided with Gaudry in the incident, saying that she should have been allowed to sing the anthem.

“WTH? I had tears. I wouldnt have cared. [Would] have done it anyway, even solo. Who cares if the others didnt like it? [I’m] an American, this man died so i could continue to be free! My prayers go out to his family. It was on [American soil], even american air space. Delta iz an american company. These flight attendants should be terminated immediately. Its freedom of speech,” one Mad World News reader commented on the site’s Facebook page.

“You can’t blame Trump for this. He is just trying to make this country great again. So for the airlines to … say it’s against company policy only applies to them. She should have stood up and sang to National Anthem on [board] for the [fallen] soldier there is no saying that you can’t. This guy fought for our country and died for it. I would have stood up and sang and not sat back down like she did,” another added.

“That’s the problem with this country and it’s people in charge, they are obsessed with being politically correct, I say “Horse s—t!! That soldier deserved whatever honors those people on that plane wanted to give him, regardless of how a few from other countries felt, they are in America,” another wrote.

Sources: AP via New York Post, Mad World News/Facebook / Featured Image: Richard Snyder III/Flickr / Embedded Images: AP via New York Post, Lasse Fuss/Wikimedia Commons