VIDEO: Sailor home from Iraq surprises son at school

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

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I DARE you not to cry!



Compare the reaction of THIS child's school with the one (school) we read about here:

Principal: No Excused Absences for GI's Kids - FreeConservatives (http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/showthread.php?t=45845)

[Suzie]

:mushy: Boy do I know how that feels. My son's preschool was at a local church and the pastor had them all make welcome home cards for my husband. I had a bag full of them when he got home. All of them were precious, they drew flags and stars and traced their little hands. We have a chest full of his war stuff and those are right in there with it. :)

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Suz, I'm so glad they did that for him! What a blessing to come home to (as well as your family!)


Besides the obvious reasons, I think the reason this particular video really made me sob, was the thought of how that OTHER school handled something similar. Just burns me UP!

I believe every single soldier (whatever service they represent) deserves a ticker-tape parade when they come home -- at the very LEAST they deserve a little respect from those whose very LIVES they are out there serving and protecting (at the risk of their own).

Please do share a profound and heart-felt THANK YOU with you husband from my family. I can think of no greater service a person can provide than to lay their lives down for people they've never even met. Bless him, you, and your whole family!
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[Suzie]

Thank you, we really do appreciate that.

You know it's funny and I started to bring this up in the other thread. We have had some of my husband's soldiers come home, smaller groups attached to other units for deployment, and the local VFW and churches want to do the parades and all that and a lot of these guys, well they just want to go home. I mean they appreciate it and of course they do go and are glad they did, because it's something they will always remember. Once they see all those people lining the streets you can tell they are happy they did take the parade route. The Guard has to return to their armory and be dismissed, and that is the longest ride some of them ever take. I was lucky enough to go down and be there for the first week when they got to the barracks at Fort Bragg, they wouldn't let me go to where his plane came in because of the type of unit he was with. But if I could have I would have been waiting on the air strip. I actually spent several hours the day he came in just driving around the base waiting for my cell phone to ring. I had it set to play a certain song when it was him calling, and the kids started yelling "it's daddy" when it finally rang. We had a big sign made but forgot it in the car when we saw him walking out the gates towards us. We had go back home then go meet him when they all made it to the armory where most people saw their loved one for the first time since they came back. That was wonderful to see too.

The one thing all of them want is to see their family, and heaven help anyone who tries to stand in their way. ;)