Passengers Delay Flight When They Learn Why A Crying Soldier Must Board

Delaying flights isn’t usually something people do on purpose. In fact, you know the moment you’re delaying a flight that everyone else in that plane, staff included, hates your rotten guts. It might be something that’s out of your hands, but they don’t care. Everyone has their schedule to adhere to, and you ruined it. So when I tell you that in this story pretty much an entire plane decided to delay the flight, you know something special is happening.

Brooks Lindsey has had a pretty weird life. The man met the woman of his dreams, Haley, and found out they were expecting their first child together shortly after getting married. By then, Brooks was already enlisted for the military and he received his draft papers to go on a mission to Kuwait. The duration of his deployment? Oh, you guessed it. Nine months.