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Homecoming
Topic Started: Dec 3 2009, 08:37 PM (308 Views)
DivaDeb
HOLY CARP!!!
This was the scene at Ft. Hood early today. A far better occasion than those recently in the news there. One of ours is back from 15 months in Mosul. He was only home 6 months between tours, so missed 3 consecutive Christmases with his young daughters. This year, he will be home.

Welcome Home, Bill. These pictures are the happiest site I can imagine. I am so, so grateful for his safe return.

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Optimistic
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HOLY CARP!!!
Looks like a wonderful welcoming party. :)
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And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
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brenda
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Welcome home indeed! What a happy reunion. Merry Christmas to all of them.
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I am glad he is safe and at home!

Bless him for his service to our country.
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Fantastic. I'm so glad he came home safe.

My thanks for his service to our nation.
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George K
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wonderful pictures Deb.

I wish a warm and wonderful Christmas for his family. Did you travel down for his homecoming?
it behooves me to behold
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DivaDeb
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We are going down on Sunday. The ballet performances are Sat and Sun so we will leave after the Sunday show. Can't wait. Can't can't can't WAIT!!!
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Red Rice
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Very nice. Lotsa happy people in those pics.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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That's wonderful. Welcome home, indeed.
Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML

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DivaDeb
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Yes...and it's a particularly big relief this time around. I guess you feel like you're pushing your odds every time you deploy, but also, this has been a very tough few weeks to be stationed in Killeen. Those families need their soldiers back even more because of the losses they sustained at home so recently. Kind of a roller-coaster ride of emotions for all of them. I wish they were all home, of course, but the 6-9 Cav, Ft Hood, Texas is home and that is a very good thing.
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