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  • 'Welcome Home a Hero' program ending at Dallas airport (by the Army)

    03/07/2012 1:00:44 PM PST · by STARWISE · 5 replies
    MSNBC ^ | 3-3-12 | Harriet Baskas
    Those American flags and welcome signs won't be needed at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport anymore. Every day, for the past eight years, at least one chartered plane carrying U.S. soldiers heading home for two weeks of rest and recuperation from active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan has touched down at both Dallas/Fort Worth and Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airports. *snip* But the drawdown of troops in Iraq and the shift to shorter deployments means there are no longer two full planes of R&R-bound soldiers returning home each day. So the U.S. army has decided to consolidate the "Welcome Home a Hero"...
  • President George W Bush Greeting Troops at DFW (Video)

    08/18/2010 4:22:01 PM PDT · by tsmith130 · 26 replies
    youtube ^ | 08/18/2010 | Me
    Many of you probably saw the Facebook photos of this event. This is a great video of the event with music and still shots. Get the tissues ready. (I search and didn't see it posted)