Comments on: Video: Sailor home from Iraq surprises son at school

By: Editor

Editor — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:35:21 +0000

I kid you not, Orbison’s “Crying” is playing on my iTunes right now…

By: ChrisIansNana

ChrisIansNana — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:43:56 +0000

Subsunk
That wasn’t sympathy that you were getting. It was support, respect and gratitude for your sacrifice! God bless you and your family Subsunk and Grunt2Jag!!

What a beautiful homecoming!!!

By: SouthernGent

SouthernGent — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:33:29 +0000

I loved it! Welcome home!

I’m still not sure why the anchoress was “embarassed” for crying. She’s only human, right?

By: Slublog

Slublog — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:32:47 +0000

Grab the Tissues…

You’ll need them…….

By: Lucid1

Lucid1 — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:13:55 +0000

If you can watch that and NOT shed a tear, you are no man, you are a machine.

By: 91Veteran

91Veteran — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:54:12 +0000

What a truly moving moment!

And the little boy, by that age generally being tough around his buddies, not caring about crying or hugging his Daddy in front of them.

…something those like “Amenities Arkin” and the “Screw them” KosKidz cannot take away.

By: Speakup

Speakup — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:42:55 +0000

That soldier wasn’t crying because he’s a real man.

He was you just didn’t see it.
There’s a lot of Vets posting here, don’t you even dare question what it feels like to make it home.
This is the kind of welcome all of our military personnel deserve and dream of.
His wife saying that she’s so proud of him surely drove a stake through many a liberal heart.

By: TBinSTL

TBinSTL — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:32:15 +0000

I just wish there was a girl here to see me crying and being all sensitive….I would soooo be in!

By: Locrian

Locrian — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:29:35 +0000

quit all yer cryin ya sissy boys. That soldier wasn’t crying because he’s a real man. The feminization of the American male is complete when a bunch of conservative men start weeping like a bunch of school girls. Hell yeah this stuff makes me proud as hell to be an American but I’ll be damned if I get so emotional that I’ll shed tears. C’mon guys, both women and children need us to be men, real men.

By: AndrewsDad

AndrewsDad — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:40:01 +0000

That was great… but why was MSNBC the network that got this?
I think networks just put pieces like this up for sale, so to speak – MSNBC must have decided they liked it and “purchased” it.

The station that shot the video, King5 from Seattle is NBC.

By: heroyalwhyness

heroyalwhyness — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:28:46 +0000

Thank you for posting this. The beauty of this child’s love for his daddy, captured on this video is a treasure.

Subsunk, thanks for sharing.

To all the Fathers and Mothers that will not be coming home, may God embrace them as sweetly as this Father and Son…- PinkyBigglesworth.

Ditto

One wonders what the Iraqi’s would think of this video.

By: Infidels Are Cool » Blog Archive » MUST WATCH:Sailor Suprises Son At School

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:19:14 +0000

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By: Drtuddle

Drtuddle — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:06:41 +0000

Dang it! Didn’t see the hankerchief warning!

By: kara26

kara26 — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:00:18 +0000

watched it twice, just more tears. God Bless the children, wifes and family of the deployed. God Bless them.

ross

By: techinblack

techinblack — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:52:10 +0000

That hit me center mass. I hope my fellow coworkers don’t look at me in the next few minutes. Tears, welcome to face.

By: Defector01

Defector01 — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:40:55 +0000

watched it without sound before class this morning, got teared up
watched it with sound after class and yeah the tears are quite flowing.

i’ve got some explaining to do if anyone sees me in the library crying but that was beautiful

By: Subsunk

Subsunk — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:32:19 +0000

My post was not meant to incur sympathy for myself. My time has run its course.

But it does show you how much we owe our Men and Women in uniform, and how much I expect all of us to work harder to treat them as Real Men and Women deserving of our Trust, our Support, for them and the mission, and of our Respect wherever and whenever we meet them.

Press on. To Victory.

Subsunk

By: The New Editor

The New Editor — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:28:55 +0000

Sailor Home from Iraq Surprises Son at School…

Watch the video here.

If this doesn’t bring tears to your eyes, then I don’t know about you…

…

By: Slublog

Slublog — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:27:43 +0000

That was great… but why was MSNBC the network that got this?

I think networks just put pieces like this up for sale, so to speak – MSNBC must have decided they liked it and “purchased” it.

By: RightWinged

RightWinged — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:24:25 +0000

That was great… but why was MSNBC the network that got this?

By: Grunt2Jag

Grunt2Jag — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:13:39 +0000

Subsunk, similar story:

My wife and I were married in July of ‘93, we were sent to Colorado to be stationed at Carson. My son was born just over a year later in August of ‘94. Four weeks to the day he was born I was sent to Cuba for five months for security duty at Gitmo. The hardest thing was getting on that bus with a 20 year-old new wife and mother standing there doing her best to be strong so that I wouldn’t be more worried than I already was. Going away is easy…you just leave. You have your brothers in arms around you and a mission to focus on.

Staying in a new home, by yourself, away from family and friends being the only parent to care for a newborn baby seems to me a much bigger sacrifice. Thankfully there are women out there like my wife who are stronger than I’ll ever be, they make it a home to come to and put up with much more than I ever did being deployed. Little crumbsnatchers squeezing the tar out of you like they never want you to walk more than a foot away from them ever again are icing on the cake.

By: georgej

georgej — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:05:40 +0000

It reminded me of my son’s return from Iraq. No, it wasn’t a surprise return like this one, but when the got off the bus at Great Lakes, we families were all waiting for them on the sidewalk, and cheered as they walked into the auditorium.

There was food and drink, activity bags for the kids, and the Navy supplied a band for entertainment. We had 10 minute progress reports as the state police escorted bus caravan made it’s way from Midway airport.

I swear, it was the longest wait I’ve experienced.

They formed up in the auditorium and the minute the dismissed command was issued, the room burst into applause, cheers, shouts, and tears of joy. Watching the kids mob their returned moms and dads was a joy in itself.

Of course, my son was mobbed by his sisters and mom and a long time family friend who joined us. I thought they were going to dislocate his neck with all the hugging.

His unit was lucky. No KIA or seriously wounded (a few shrapnel scratches from mortars). And for the next two weeks, those who had deployed were allowed to wear their desert MARPAT cammies as a sign of recognition.

I know the joy when a soldier returns. I know how his family felt. First hand.

God bless him and his family, and thanks to him and his fellow sailors for a job well done.

By: Spurius Ligustinus

Spurius Ligustinus — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:04:28 +0000

Thanks, Allah.

Lots more of that. Lots less Rosie. Please.

Best thing ever on your site. Period.

Professor Blather on March 30, 2007 at 1:50 PM

Nailed it, Professor.

By: Dudley Smith

Dudley Smith — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:57:00 +0000

SailorDave

Got it at CNN, thanks for the tip

By: John from WuzzaDem

John from WuzzaDem — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:54:33 +0000

Damn you, AP!

I had to answer the phone right when that was ending, so I just told a client I have a cold – If he calls again later, I’m busted.