How Dare the Tampa Bay Lightning Prevent an Army God from Selling His Tickets
June 7, 2015
Paul Dhillon, Army captain and Tampa Bay Lightning fan, tried to sell his hockey tickets for a playoff game because he knew he would not be able to attend. Bad mistake: a Blackhawks fan might buy the tickets and the Lightning wouldn’t like that. Worse mistake: slighting an Army god. Lightning CEO Tod Leiweke told the Tampa Bay Times on Friday that the team may have gone too far in Dhillon’s case and “perhaps on this our passion got in the way.” “If a gentleman serving our country feels he was slighted, oh my god, we owe him an apology,” Leiweke said.
Military personnel: gods who walk among men.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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