Across America, Soldiers arrive home to rousing welcomes

1 posted on 04/16/2004 7:39:26 PM PDT by SandRat

To: Ragtime Cowgirl; MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; TEXOKIE; Alamo-Girl; windchime; Grampa Dave; ...

2 posted on 04/16/2004 7:40:00 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)

To: SandRat; Diogenesis

"Across America, Soldiers arrive home to rousing welcomes."

Rousing Welcome ping.

4 posted on 04/16/2004 7:47:48 PM PDT by Happy2BMe (U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)

5 posted on 04/16/2004 7:49:28 PM PDT by Happy2BMe (U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)

Welcome Home, Well Done Bump.

6 posted on 04/16/2004 7:52:51 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Puns are bad, but poetry is verse.)

7 posted on 04/16/2004 8:06:38 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Become a monthly donor to Free Republic)

To: SandRat; All

WELCOME HOME GUYS!!!!!! God Bless you all for your service to this Great Nation.

SPG - Simple Polish Guy
Bogdan

8 posted on 04/16/2004 8:08:19 PM PDT by bogdanPolska12

KEWL!!!

Welcome Home Salute and Thank You!!!

9 posted on 04/16/2004 8:11:34 PM PDT by Diver Dave

I can't even imagine how overpowering that must be for those soldiers.

10 posted on 04/16/2004 8:41:16 PM PDT by McGavin999 (Evil thrives when good men do nothing.)

Damn monitor- I was reading the story and it got all blurry.

11 posted on 04/16/2004 8:44:46 PM PDT by fourdeuce82d

To: fourdeuce82d

Blurry? Same here! Must be a new "blurry virus" that attacks monitors!

12 posted on 04/16/2004 8:55:50 PM PDT by hoosiermama (prayers for all)

13 posted on 04/16/2004 9:46:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin

To: hoosiermama; fourdeuce82d

I have the blurry virus also!

14 posted on 04/16/2004 10:05:08 PM PDT by texasflower (in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)

God Bless all our troops and thank you for your service to this Great Nation. And one proud AMERICAN with BLURRY eyes also ! ! Also many thanks to there families who give up so much. GOD please grant them the best the USA has. Grant them all the best in there life from this day and all the days to come. And protect those still fighting for all of us. There is not words to tell them how proud we are of them. THANK YOU, THANKS YOU, .... THANKS YOU ! !

15 posted on 04/16/2004 10:15:33 PM PDT by ducks1944

Thanks for the ping! Wish our local paper carried these kind of homecomings.

16 posted on 04/16/2004 10:37:07 PM PDT by Rabid Dog (Join your FreeRepublic Chapter and make a difference!)

Thanks, SandRat! Great post.

Homecomings are the best news - pics, too.

I see you've already taken care of the keywords. *g*

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Master Sgt. Mark Colley coos over his sleeping 6-month-old son, Jake, as his wife, Cindy, enjoys the moment. Colley saw his son for the first time at a Fort Carson homecoming celebration for his unit, the 2nd Heavy Equipment Transportation Co., 43rd Area Support Group, 3rd Brigade, 7th Infantry

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Jewel Whiting, 4, was overjoyed to be back in the arms of her daddy, Sgt. Steven Whiting, with her mom, Angela, snuggled close. Whiting returned to Fort Carson April 3 with the 2nd Heavy Equipment Transportation Company, 43rd Area Support Group, 3rd Brigade, 7th Infantry Division.

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Family and friends give a rousing welcome to Soldiers of the 43rd Area Support Group, 3rd Brigade, 7th Infantry Division, as they march into the Fort Carson special events center for a homecoming celebration.

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Richard Salisbury greets his wife, Maj. Beth Salisbury, with roses and a kiss as Sgt. Kathryn Pollock looks on. Pollock helped make Richard Salisbury's presence at the Fort Carson homecoming a surprise; he told his wife a Texas hunting trip would prevent him from being there. Maj. Salisbury and Pollock are with the 55th Medical Company, an Army Reserve unit based in Indianapolis.

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Angie Montoya watches as her daughter, Amber, gives her father, Staff Sgt. Frankie Montoya, an emotional welcome home with her siblings, Cynthia and Javier, standing close by. Montoya was among 89 Soldiers with the 43rd Area Support Group, 3rd Brigade, 7th Infantry Division, and 51 members of the Army Reserve's 113th Medical Company of Las Alamedos, Calif.

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Kim Rumsey gives her husband, Spc. Jason Rumsey, a warm welcome back at a Fort Carson homecoming celebration for Soldiers with the 43rd Area Support Group, 3rd Brigade, 7th Infantry Division and the Army Reserve's 113th Medical Company, Combat Stress Control, of Las Alamedos, Calif.

17 posted on 04/17/2004 9:08:28 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("He spares nothing to get to his Marines..They love him." re the command Chaplain in Fallujah,Ramadi)

18 posted on 04/17/2004 9:10:10 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl

To: MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; TEXOKIE; Alamo-Girl; windchime; Grampa Dave; anniegetyourgun; ...

Welcome Home!

(More pics, ping!)

8 Iraq Homecoming Tips

~ Veterans advice for friends and loved ones.

19 posted on 04/17/2004 9:11:07 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("He spares nothing to get to his Marines..They love him." re the command Chaplain in Fallujah,Ramadi)

To: fourdeuce82d

Blurry monitors - must be some new kind of virus - seems to have effected mine too. Don't know how it caused the goosebumps though.

20 posted on 04/17/2004 9:12:27 AM PDT by Let's Roll (Kerry is a self-confessed unindicted war criminal or ... a traitor to his country in a time of war)

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