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I've had a bug planted in my head for a few days now - that the returning troops deserve to have some friendly faces greeting them at BWI, where they are arriving to make connecting flights to their homes, and I found this article while surfing around the net this morning, looking for info on flights into BWI with returning troops on them.

Thinking that it was newsworthy, I did a quick search to see if it was posted on FR, and there it was! Thanks for posting it, Spruce.

I also found a news release from CENTCOMM that announces an increase in the number of troops being rotated out of Iraq for R & R, beginning yesterday. The troops will begin arriving in Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, and BWI airports tomorrow, November 2, and make connecting flights home from those airports.

Any locals able to get to those airports and greet these fine young men and women? They've been away from home a long time, and all they've gotten news-wise (CNN, etc.) is that American support for their mission is evaporating. It would be nice if some local FReepers, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and others would show them that the news is lying to them - and that we do support them!

19 posted on 11/01/2003 5:27:40 AM PST by tgslTakoma (Why call it ANSWER? It's WORKERS WORLD PARTY!)

That's a great idea....my hubby, Mike will be arriving in BWI sometime tomorrow...I only hope he has a seat on a flight home...

22 posted on 11/01/2003 5:34:29 AM PST by mystery-ak (Mike's coming home Nov 3rd for his two-week furlough.....HOOAH!!1)

To: tgslTakoma; SandRat

Hey, Partner, do you have contacts with the BSA Council in Dallas? Could you see if there's any way to set up a welcoming committee on such short notice?

If I heard they were coming into Tucson or Phoenix, I'd be there in a heartbeat!

HJ

26 posted on 11/01/2003 9:57:23 AM PST by HiJinx (Go with Courage, go with Honor, go in God's good Grace. Come home when you're done. We'll be here.)

just a ping (I apologize if it's a bother)...
Post #19 might be of interest...if you know of any DFW area folks who might like
to great some of the best-and-brightest as they swing through the DFW airport...

I'm going to try to contact my cousins in Dallas to let them know...

36 posted on 11/01/2003 1:38:52 PM PST by VOA

To: tgslTakoma; VOA

If this turns out to be a go, please ping me or send me a private message of the time and the location at DFW. I am up for this.

51 posted on 11/01/2003 3:40:49 PM PST by TexKat

What a wonderful idea! I'm not within hundreds of miles of any of those airports, or I would BE THERE. These brave heroes deserve our support.

70 posted on 11/02/2003 11:52:58 AM PST by kitkat

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