A female veteran found a nasty note  left on her car criticizing her for parking in a spot reserved for veterans outside of a grocery store in North Carolina. Mary Claire Caine, who served in the Air Force and spent time stationed in Kuwait, found the note attached to the front passenger window of her SUV outside the Harris Teeter grocery store in Wilmington, North Carolina. The note, written in sharpie, read: ‘Maybe [you] can’t read the sign you parked in front of. This space is reserved for those who fought for AMERICA… not you. Thanks, Wounded Vet.’ As a veteran Caine could not believe what she had read.
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Mary Claire Caine served for four years in the Air Force but returned to her car to find a note criticizing her use of a veterans-only parking spot
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The note said 'This space is reserved for those who fought for AMERICA... not you' and was signed 'Wounded Vet'
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Caine speculates that the author assumed a woman with a prominent advert for her realtor business on her car was unlikely to be a veteran
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Having followed her father and two brothers into the military she wants to remind people that 'veterans come in all shapes and sizes'
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Caine says the author owes her and every other female service member  fighting now and who has fought in the past, an apology
Caine then moved to @placeholder, earned a college degree, and became a realtor.