[tsmith130]

Tissue alert!

[CLS]

Sorry but as a former Recon Marine, this misspelling (or whatever you call it) "re-con Marine" sure is close to a subtle insult to me.

Yes I know it was done simply out of ignorance, but I do get tired of ignorance from "news" reporters.

[mathluv]

It has been on the Dallas NBC5i news that a group of people are at DFW to meet most of the flights - to welcome home the troops. The videos they have shown are very similar to the Super Bowl ad.

[MEG33]

Misty monitor here..It really , really happens..I know they had a waiting list for volunteers who wanted to meet the troops arriving at DFW.

[Bahbah]

There is already a tissue alert on this one.

[sweetliberty]

Finally, a POSITIVE story, and very touching! Pound sand, media dinosaurs!

[OldFriend]

And now I'm crying too.

[7.62 x 51mm]

Here's the link to "Applause"...

http://www.budweiser.com/commercials_05/select_media.html?c_id=3

Get the tissues out!

[workerbee]

And we saw the protests, and we saw what the media was saying about what's going on, and we were worried about what we were actually going to face when we came home. We didn't know what to expect, to be honest with you. From the news media we were seeing, the whole country was basically telling us we're a bunch of jerks.

This is sickening. Not only because it's the perception of the troops, but because I firmly believe it is the deliberate intention of the media to discourage our military.

[cricket]

"Tissue alert!"

Indeed. . .and a bump.

It took forty years for the Libs to understand how awful was their treatment of VietNam Vets when they returned. How now. . .the Vietnam era Vets are now heros - thanks to John Kerry, of course; but whatever. . .

/ / . . .and all the while, they are doing the same 'dump on' our current Military - despite their lame protestations that they 'support the troops'. . .

These wars are different; the only thing the same is the Libs hateful response to the men and women who must fight them.

[Feckless]

Those scumbags who spit on GIs and called them "baby killers" are quiet, for the most part, but not gone. Some are in Congress (guess which party)and countless others are lining up to begin feeding at the public trough (Social Security, Medicare, etc). Don't forget them, and don't ever let them presume to speak for the rest of us.

[robowombat]

What a pleasure to read reports such as this. How glad I am that the participants in this war are received appropriately upon return. How different from the wretched Viet Nam experience. On July 3, 1970 I was one of about 200 soldiers, airmen, and Marines on a DEROS flight from TSN via Yakota to Travis AFB. Because the flight encountered headwinds on the trans-Pacific leg we had to put down at SEATAC for refueling. Once on the ground we were permitted to deplane but because we hadn't passed through customs were not allowed into the main terminal but restricted to one of the gate areas. I vividly remember a Honolulu fight loading up at the gate next to ours. The vacationers and honeymooning couples filed past staring at the group of (mostly) young men waring the green poplin jungle fatigues of that war. We were stared at in the same way people look at jail inmates being loaded on a prison bus or at cattle being put on a truck. Distaste or at most curiosity was all displayed. Not a single friendly expression or greeting.

Later that evening we pulled into Travis and I as all others went through a cursory customs inspection. The inspector asked where I was arriving from (the flight had picked up some people at Yakota). I told him Viet-Nam and he replied "Then, welcome home son." That was the extent of the welcome I got and I will always be grateful to that middle aged customs inspector.

[sneakers]

Tears of joy for our young marines!

[Tolik]

Moral Clarity BUMP !

This ping list is not author-specific for articles I'd like to share. Some for perfect moral clarity, some for provocative thoughts; or simply interesting articles I'd hate to miss myself. (I don't have to agree with the author 100% to feel the need to share an article.) I will try not to abuse the ping list and not to annoy you too much, but on some days there is more of good stuff that is worthy attention. I keep separate PING lists for my favorite authors Victor Davis Hanson, Lee Harris, David Warren, Orson Scott Card. You are welcome in or out, just freepmail me (and note which PING list you are talking about).

[CSM]

Blurry screen ping!

[katana]

but I'm feeling up

His nurses must be very understanding.

Just kidding.

CNN and the other networks should be prosecuted for sedition.

Not kidding.

[dangus]

I know I've applauded the troops at BWI on several occasions.

[SunTzuWu]

That was my favorite Super bowl commercial. It brought tears to my eyes then and now. I am so disgusted with the MSM I don't know what to do.

[Allegra]

"And -- I'm breaking up now [editor's note: with tears] -- every one of us just started crying like babies. Everybody in the terminal -- I kid you not, at least two to three hundred people -- just started clapping, spontaneously. To me, it was so much worth what we were doing, to realize that people over here actually get what we were doing. We weren't over there because it's fun. We're over there doing a job.

This is wonderful and heartwarming. And damn the media for making these guys even have any question as to how they'll be greeted or how the American public preceives them.

I make a point of telling our troops how much support they have back home, and after reading this, I will step up my efforts in that category another notch.

Damn the media.

[day10]

You better believe it happens! This past Christmas Eve my boys and I were on the way to Florida to see my parents and had a layover in Atlanta - Hartsfield. While waiting at our gate a large group of soldiers came in at the gate next to us. Pretty much everyone waiting at our gate got up and gave them a long round of applause.

The soldiers were very gracious. My boys are 9 and 7 and they were very wide eyed - this was a big deal to them. They shook hands with several of the soldiers and, of course, this was a great opportunity for Dad to reinforce the "important things in life".

[ElPatriota]

, I can understand that happening in an airport. If the idea of a soldier putting his LIFE on the line for you, us, does not move you (to tears), then you must be a Democrat! :-[