I received this e-mail from a reader who takes his job, his pride and his patriotism seriously. He has written a heart-warming story on how he, the manager, and his company, a distributor for Budweiser beer handled the dilemma of one of his delivery rivers. They seemed to squelch the laughing of those who found the tremendous loss of life in the World Trade Center Bombing a comical experience. As we read our e-mail on this tragedy, we have become aware that its impact has moved our readers to become proficient writers.

"Dear Gennie, (I hope you don't mind me calling you that.)

I thought you'd like to know what happened in a town north of Bakersfield, California. After you finish reading this, I hope that you will reprint my story so that others in our nation and around the world will know about those who laughed when they found out about the tragic events in of September 11,2001.

Late, on September 11th, my driver was making a delivery to a convenience store in a town called McFarland. He knew of the tragedy that had just occurred in New York City. He entered the business to find two Arabs whooping and hollering and really cheering it up. It was obvious they were elated with what had just happened earlier that day. Immediately my driver went to his truck and called his dispatcher, who immediately called me and patched me to him. Visibly upset, he stuttered out his news to me. He didn't feel he could go back into the store and finish setting up his delivery with those horrible people watching him.

Sternly I asked him, "Do you think you could go in there long enough to pull every Budweiser product and item our beverage company sells there? I promise you that you will never have to deliver to them again."

Even through the phone I could hear him smiling as he answered me, "You betcha!"

Later he told me that he walked into the store wearing an incredibly wide Cheshire cat grin on his face. And as calm as that preverbal cat basking in the sun, he proceeded to pull every single product our company provided them and left leaving them with stark stares, wide open mouths and a message no to ever bother and call us for a delivery again.

Budweiser happens to be the beer of choice for that community. Just letting you all know how Kern County handled this situation! And I add that I have very close friends that own other snack food distributorships...in particular Pepsi Cola. I called my friends while my route driver was still at the store and told them what had happened. As we spoke, they cell phoned their route drivers and gave them the identical orders I had given my driver.

Every distributor I had notified whom had product in that store descended on it like a flock of vultures and within the hour stripped it bare! And if you know the corporate brand PepsiCo, (Pepsi, Frito Lay, etc.), that's damn near EVERYTHING! Last I heard of that store, it had no product, no customers (word spreads fast in these small towns, y'know) and no hope.

And I say good riddance to bad rubbish. I hope they enjoyed their cheers...it's the last thing they'll be laughing at in THIS country!

Thanks, and God Bless America and all those who gave up their lives on September 11, 2001 to the whims of an insane man leading insane people. Our dead will live in our memories for generations to come, perhaps into eternity. And there is also one thing I know for sure: It's a day that will live in the shadows of the Muslamic World and shame their religion forever.

Bart K"