I was watching video clips of evacuees being flown out on a Marine Helicopter. My wife used to wear hijab. Here's how these things are related…

So, in the clip there are some women and men of Lebanese origin sitting in the back of a Marine helicopter. Its the same type of squadron which was my first assignment back in 1996. Thus, I felt a pinge of "being there" since I, too, participated in a evacuation operation in Africa, 1998. Then I noticed a few of them had hijabs and beards. I am going to be brutally honest here, so read this only after the kids are in bed. My first reation was that if I was the crew chief of that bird, there wouldn't be a snowball's chance in hell that any hijabi or beardie would get on board my helicopter! Now, I know this is politically incorrect and simply not nice, even for me. But, I just couldn't help myself not to see the hijabi and beardie as Hezbollah sympathizers.