Jay Coberly, 93, said he and five fellow veterans tried to dine Tuesday at the Five Sixty restaurant, which rotates atop Reunion Tower, but the hostess told them their unit baseball caps, POW T-shirts and shorts did not comply with the facility's dress code, the Dallas Morning News reported Friday.
"I figure if I spent two years in a POW camp, I could have handled the privilege of sitting in that fancy restaurant a few minutes," Coberly said.
"We weren't dressed like hobos. We were just dressed comfortably," he said.
"We've been all over the country, and we've never had this kind of problem. Dallas must be a first-class town."
Stephanie Davis, director of communications for the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group, said the hostess made a mistake and the men would have been admitted if she had spoken to a superior.
"It was a mistake and we're apologetic," Davis said.
Marcus Cascio, general manager of the restaurant, gave the group two bottles of Scotch, an invitation to return to the restaurant and a written apology.
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Respect the law, folks!
A REAL veteran will have respect for this country and not expect that he/she can be a lawbreaker. All the people had to do was go home, dress properly and return to the restaurant. How bad was THAT?
No special treatment for veteran or anyone else!
I, too, am a war veteran. I did my job, earned my pay and the country owes NOTHING more to me or any other veteran than what was promised at the onset of my service.
What's next? Saying you can drink and drink because you are a "veteran"? Hogwash!
The only thing the restaurant manager did wrong was to send a dangerous drug (alcohol) to these idiots. They are apparently ALREADY brain-damaged.
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