A Marine Corps vet’s effort to highlight the crisis of soldiers dying by suicide nearly got her booted from a Delta flight … and she was forced to change her clothing before take-off.
Catherine Banks , who served 22 years in the Marines, says she was on a Delta flight in San Francisco earlier this week, when she says a flight attendant walked up to her and said, “You need to get off the plane.”
She says he told her the shirt she was wearing was “threatening.” The t-shirt had a print that read, “Do Not Give in to the War Within … End Veteran Suicide.”
Catherine told KNTV she was dumbfounded, and simply responded, “Are you kidding me?”
She says she explained she’d been in the service for over 2 decades, and was on her way to see her sister, who’s also in the Marines — but she claims the attendant said, “I don’t care about your service” … and told her she couldn’t get back on the plane until she removed the shirt.
Banks says she was filled with anxiety as she stood on the jetway bridge, and — after asking the flight attendant to turn around — she took off the shirt and replaced it with a sweatshirt.