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Little Soldier Girl "Didn't Want to Let Go"
NBC Philadelphia ^ | October 7, 2009 | VINCE LATTANZIO

Posted on 10/07/2009 11:14:51 AM PDT by flutters



TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: godspeed; iraq; military; militaryfamilies
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1 posted on 10/07/2009 11:14:51 AM PDT by flutters
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To: flutters

She probably has heard about the new ROE...


2 posted on 10/07/2009 11:17:04 AM PDT by outlawjake
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To: flutters

Awwwwwwwwwwww

Poor little sweetheart...


3 posted on 10/07/2009 11:25:31 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: flutters

http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=159986

Give the local paper the hits...


4 posted on 10/07/2009 11:28:41 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: flutters

Thats very cute


5 posted on 10/07/2009 11:31:45 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: flutters
Our heroes and their families are making sacrifices everyday while our so called leaders are trashing the country and the constitution while enriching themselves and the rest of america is shopping at the mall and watching tv. Just sickening.
6 posted on 10/07/2009 11:31:48 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: flutters

[tears]


7 posted on 10/07/2009 11:34:43 AM PDT by murphE ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." - GK Chesterton)
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To: flutters

I don’t think I’ve ever been so moved by a picture.

Thanks for the post.


8 posted on 10/07/2009 11:35:01 AM PDT by JMJJR ( Newspeak is the official language of Oceania)
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To: flutters
How about a friggin tissue alert!!!!

I remember when I left for DS and Somalia. My son didn't know who I was when I got back from D/S and it took him a few hours to warm back up to me after Somalia.

Children, I think, suffer the most during deployment but they bounce back well. My son is now in the process of trying to get into the MC Officer program at Purdue.

When I ask why... He tells me he "feels it is his duty just like you did your duty dad"


9 posted on 10/07/2009 11:38:25 AM PDT by marine86297 (I'll never forgive Clinton for Somalia, my blood is on his hands)
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To: flutters

To anybody who doesn’t think being an Army family is a hard job. And it had to hurt for that soldier to finally let go of his daughter’s hand.


10 posted on 10/07/2009 11:39:25 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: JMJJR

You’re welcome. It’s very touching.


11 posted on 10/07/2009 11:48:56 AM PDT by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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To: marine86297

Thank you for your service. It sounds like your son is a fine young man. Good job!


12 posted on 10/07/2009 11:50:07 AM PDT by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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In 20 years in the Navy I saw a lot of that. Six month deployments and tearful separations on the pier. About a year ago one of my former Boy Scouts, himself now a First Class Petty Officer on one of the ships, was leaving on a deployment. The local news showed his six-year old son on the pier in tears waving goodbye to his daddy.

I got the link and e-mailed it to my friend.

On the other hand, there is also the (happy) tear-filled reunions in the pier.

This is what our military is sacrificing for our freedom. Along with their lives, and even if they come out of it seemingly unscathed, their health. 20 years in the Navy (10 on aircraft carriers) and I suffer from pronounced loss of hearing and recurring asthma and bronchitis. And retirees don’t get hearing aids in our lifetime medical benefits.


13 posted on 10/07/2009 11:54:58 AM PDT by fredhead (Liberals think globally, reason rectally, act idiotically.)
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To: paul51
Our heroes and their families are making sacrifices everyday

The sacrifices made by their families go largely unnoticed ... thank you for remembering that.

the rest of america is shopping at the mall

I've objected to that before, and I'll object to it again. It's a sweeping generalization, and it's wrong.

14 posted on 10/07/2009 11:57:20 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: flutters

Don’t feel sorry for her-dad is giving her, by example, a legacy of pride, character and honor.


15 posted on 10/07/2009 12:00:28 PM PDT by Spok
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To: fredhead

Yeah, this stuff just kills me...

I remember being single, and ready for our deployments, ready and eager to get going...The married guys were always the last ones to get onboard, and in my opinion rightfully so...

We be gone for 6-7 months, and when we got back those same married guys were on deck ready for the gangway to be secured...

After things got settled down, I remember us single guys (that didn’t have the duty that first night back) we’d go ashore with a bag of dirty laundry, and looking forward to some good food and a nice tall glass of ice cold milk...

Ahhhhh, memories!!!


16 posted on 10/07/2009 12:13:35 PM PDT by stevie_d_64
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To: Pan_Yan

ping


17 posted on 10/07/2009 12:14:54 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife
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To: flutters

.....while Obama calculates the politics.


18 posted on 10/07/2009 12:21:15 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: flutters
Very touching.

Thanks for that.

19 posted on 10/07/2009 12:22:06 PM PDT by TChris (There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
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To: flutters

Aww. God, that broke my heart.

I have a four year-old little girl, and it would just kill me inside to have to do that to her.


20 posted on 10/07/2009 12:22:44 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Hope....Change...Bullsh*t)
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