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There Will Be Tears: U.S. Army Sgt. Returns Home After a Year in Afghanistan and Surprises Sons at School Assembly

Feb. 25, 2013 8:46pm Jason Howerton

U.S. Army Sgt. Chris Page had been away from his two sons for roughly a year serving in Afghanistan. On Tuesday of last week, Hunter Dodd and Chandler Pittman got their dad back in a tearful reunion at a school assembly.

School officials and the boys’ mother, Natasha, helped coordinate the surprise visit at each of the schools, according to the Welcome Home Blog. These videos just never, ever get old.

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Atikva
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 10:48am
Another lie debunked from these moronic women’s lib, who claim that children don’t need a father to raise them!

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- Free77Man
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 9:54pm
  Amen brother/sister. Fight the feminists. God bless this family.
  
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MADASHELLONE
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 10:07am
That video is what makes this country great. Very cool to see a dad and his son’s greet one another like that.

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- zorro
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 2:15pm
  I feel like an idiot tearing up in my office. I think I’ll leave early, pick up my boy from school, and just hang out. God bless this family.
  
  “These videos just never, ever get old.” No, they do not.
  
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YOURSENSEI
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 9:59am
This is what you must know:

This Sgt. is a known Friend of Hamas.

It is so.
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- bulldawg
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 10:43am
  First Sorry to The Blaze, But Your a F-CKing Commie Jerk, take your azz back to the hole you crawled out of, I think they call it Pelosi’s azz
  
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- txannie
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 10:49am
  I can’t believe I’m reading comments like @sensie and his ilk. These jerkrods need relearn empathy, if they ever had any in the first place. Talk about chickens coming home to roost….when America abandons Isreal, that is when Americas goose is cooked.
  
  As to this video…WOW !! I’m glad this father made it back home to his family after serving his country in what ever fashion the Obama admin ordered. He certainly didn’t go by himself for no reason. He sacrificed his time and endangered his life in service to a higher calling for America. Anyone that doesn’t think so can go suck a rock.
  
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- txannie
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 10:53am
  @bulldawg…thank you for saying what I couldn’t. All I could do is sputter and look for a garbage can to spit in at the thought of our military men and women putting thier lives in danger for someone like this jerkrod ‘yoursensei’ and anyone else with the same opinion.. senseless morons.
  
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- Leerm
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 11:28am
  When I read some thing so vile I am do glad it is not in person. You would be down and out I would be under arrest.
- notsurewhatshappeninghere
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 12:47pm
  This is what yoursensei must know:
  
  Every SINGLE comment you make undoes any semblance of seriousness about you or you “points”…you are now a COMPLETE JOKE. Thank you for the laughs….
  
  “It is So…”
  
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- dblaess
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:15pm
  This is what you must know:
  
  You have made a serious charge, desent you try to sow.
  
  Now prove it, or GO
  
  It is so.
  
  By the way do you get paid by the word or the post?
  
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vaman
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 8:25am
If we didn’t send the military to every filthy 3rd world country to fight wars that have nothing to with American safety, then reunions like this would not be needed. That’s how you actually support the troops.

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- mikem1969
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 9:34am
  You said it, American forces need to be pulled out of every country overseas.
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 9:57am
  exactly stop appearing Israel and Saudi Arabia, those 2 countries are users of this country and killers of our troops. The GOP specifically needs to throw the zionist traitors back to Israel where they belong. that is how you support the troops taking down their real enemies and not shipping them off to war for them.
  
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- Doppleganger
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 10:01am
  When the attack launched from Afghanistan on 9 11 happened, the US had no choice but to respond militarily. You don’t take a hit like that (9 11) and do nothing.
  
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- Leerm
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 11:30am
  can not argue with your logic. But, remember sometime it has to happen. But, only when it has a direct effect on our country or a true friends country.
  
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- notsurewhatshappeninghere
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 1:02pm
  Yes, true. I agree more than you know, but why can’t we take a “timeout” from politics and just appreciate a touching, warm moment that shows us what America is supposed to be about. I don’t know about you, but I hardly ever see stories ANYWHERE about a patriot being reunited with a loved one (or ones thank goodness (yes, I am agnostic…don’t think that makes me any less American…yet) after sacrificing one or more years of his life for this country. I wonder if we are too far gone now. Once in a while, when there is a “nice” story like this, it takes an alarmingly small amount of time for comments to turn right to the same old political talking points…
  
  If we, as a “country” can’t even appreciate something as simple and beautiful as these reunions, what does that really say about the potential we have to ever become a “great” country again? Maybe that’s the problem??????
  
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- ctoddkc
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 5:03pm
  All too often, the homecoming winds up being one in which a tearful, twenty-something widow meets a grey, flag-draped shipping casket at the end of an airline conveyer belt…I am sick and tired of seeing the media in this country failing to ask the pertinent questions about just what is it that our young people are sacrificing themselves for!? Why are we giving billions–and our young men–to these 3rd world countries who hate us? What is our plan for victory and what are our troops fighting for? Why is it that Barack Obama gets away with ordering these men into quagmires and never is questioned? George W. Bush was a lousy President, as well—getting away from the Reagan-Bush I doctrine of strategically bombing, when necessary, and only putting troops on the ground when absolutely necessary….Yet, at least he cared about our servicemen, I believe. Now we find ourselves–and our troops–stuck. Now we have our fighting men bogged down with no end in sight–and a press that doesn’t talk about it–due to the fact that NOTHING is allowed to be critical of the incompetent ass in The White House…instead, they would rather focus on the glossed over, feel-good, happy stories of one of the lucky men who got to come home in one piece–and alive.
  
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- braddock66
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 5:06pm
  I agree. Walk softly, carry a big stick. Either way, love the story. What a sacrifice these families pay.
  
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freedomofspeech
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 8:04am
I said I wouldnt cry, where is my freaking box of Kleenex!

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- dimart
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 9:46am
  I know. I love these stories and hate them at the same time. I always end up crying!
  
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- zorro
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 2:18pm
  LOL…I knew I would and didn’t want to click on it but did anyway. Unless you’ve been away from your family for a long time, you really don’t know what this feels like.
  
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Hausmaus
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 7:00am
America is still America because of great men like these, and America will keep being America as long as we are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.

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tonypro
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 2:54am
Every time I see one of these reunions it brings a tear to my eye.

It stirs memories in me, of waiting with my Mother, and my Brother for my Dads permanent return from Vietnam at the end of his third tour. We were so blessed to have him back, as many others were not as fortunate. So these stories really bring me back to that moment in time.

I continue to pray for our military, and their families that they too will be reunited.

It’s such a shame that these brave, and honorable men, and women are risking their lives abroad under the guise of defending our country, while the corrupt elite are right here in our gov. trying to destroy it.

I await the day that these gov. terrorists get what they have coming to them. Whether it’s justice from We the People, or justice from God. It does my heart good to know that one day, even if I’m not here to see it, they will pay for their evil deeds.

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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 4:14am
  Think about it….Why do we still get Oil from the middle east?…..So they can buy all of our cheap property with our own money…..Thats why Obama would not let us drill here and he still refuses for us to drill or frack……..We are paying the Arabs to buy our land……Bush did it and now Obama is fueling the fire……We will all be under Muslim rule here…Its only a matter of time……Our only hope is our conservative leaders in certain states, but I only hope we have enough…..I know for a fact that Arabs are buying properties in Miami….I hope we can pull out of this but its going to take Constitution and God…..Sarah Palin was right on so many levels.
  
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WeHoldTheseTruths
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 12:26am
There was a lot of love and respect in the hug that the older son gave his dad. Now bring all of the troops home so they can get one too. It’s always great to see our brave men and women come home safely.

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- db321
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 1:18am
  Well this is what happens when America sends it very best overseas to serve. It happens every time. God Bless our Troops and God Bless all Military and their Families.
  
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- survivorseed
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 1:28am
  The reunions are awesome and emotional but it just makes the question of why are these men and women risking their lives in a third world sandpit in the first place all the more poignant. Bring ALL the troops back home to their loved ones.
  
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- TrueSoundsOfLiberty
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 5:12am
  WeHold
  I don’t think some people understand when we say “BRING THEM HOME!”.
  It’s not just for them or their family’s but it’s also about the world as a whole. As soon as we can get our troops out of hostile countries the sooner we can start to make amends and start diplomacy with those countries.
  
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BestBearHugsEver
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 12:21am
These are the best bear hugs ever. I never get tired of seeing these stories.

-Scott
Author of ‘The Best Bear Hugs Ever’

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- Xanderson
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 12:36am
  God bless these beautiful families! You are truly the heart and soul of America! Every time I see a story like this, I take shock and thank God I am am an American!!
  
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theonlynana
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:59pm
Guys, pass the tissue even old nana’s cry when love of family is seen, bless this man and his sons, we use this type of post everyday.

Thank You for your Service

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- LibertyOrDeath12
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 12:24am
  Well all this means nothing since he is going to be sent back to Iran.
  
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- spirited
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 1:03am
  Here, here –sigh
  
  >Beautiful….another reunited family.
  
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uffdaubet
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:59pm
ausername, pronounced: a$$ your name

These guys are sent rotation after rotation. Duty keeps them going, love brings them home. Thank you just doesn’t say it. Imagine their frustration in knowing that while they protect freedom abroad the white house is destroying it here at home. And guys like ausername see nothing special in a warrior’s homecoming.

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- AUsername
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 10:00am
  than stop shipping off to war to die for israel.
  
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- vadale
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 6:47pm
  Ausername is an auserhole. We had no troops in Afgahnistan before 911. Still they hit us. So if we get out what will they do? They hated us long before any American ever thought of stepping foot on their land….Long before Israel was reformed….Read a bit of history. They kill anyone that will not submit. I don’t want to submit, do you?
  
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Jondolar
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:57pm
Onions? Not when you’re working for the funeral home that has a service for one of the soldiers who came home to his son, who’d just joined the Marines, in a casket. I never knew until after that service what it’s like to not have any tears left to cry. Still, I think the one positive thing we’ve managed to change in society since Vietnam is the public’s recognition of the sacrifice our soldiers make for us.

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Brents Torts
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:34pm
Dang these onions.

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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:41pm
  Yeah, I hate onions….I’m always cutting them up when I see stories like this…and I’m in freaking hotel room. If its not onions, then it must me allergies….
  
  God Bless Our Troops….and their Families.
  
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- afishfarted
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:50pm
  I thought it was the onions too, untill the dog walked past my feet and passed out
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:03pm
  2Afishfarted –
  
  dude! that was you? I thought it was the Saint Louis Water Treatment Plant….I had the hotel window opened
  
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- SUNTZU
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:30pm
  Ell you are all a bunch of wussies
  Just like Me
  Any one got a tissue
  
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- afishfarted
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:36pm
  yeah~~really sorry about that. . The wife convinced me I needed to start taking Bean-o and it did the air quality. Guess I need to start looking for a different soap now. Or move back to the sewer system.
  
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tnman65
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:22pm
These stories don’t get old to me. As a matter of fact, I look forward to seeing them. God bless all of our Service Men and Women. Come home soon.

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SandyfromChesterfield
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:21pm
A year is a very long time for these young boys. Bless them all!

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Patriotmom54
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:09pm
Brother Winston Smith…if you actually watched that and that’s your response then I really feel sorry for you. You’re only a “pawn” if you allow yourself to be one. We all have a job to do and some are brave enough to put themselves in harms way so that the rest of us don’t have to. It was such an uplifting video and then I read the first response yours…what a negatron you are allowing yourself to be.

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- afishfarted
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:30pm
  da Brother is a putz who parrots what his Occupy boyfriends spew.
  
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- Brother Winston Smith
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 12:39am
  Na. Didn’t watch. Don’t wanna watch videos posted here DESIGNED ONLY TO MAKE the Blaze/Beck seem grateful for the return of an American soldier THEY ADVOCATED UNCONSTITUTIONALLY SENDING OUT IN THE FIRST PLACE in an UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND NEVER-ENDING “War on Terror.”
  
  Interventionist republicans will LIE THROUGH THEIR TEETH, and position NONINTERVENTIONISTS and their comments… as taking some cold-hearted swipe at the soldiers (same as they did to Ron Paul a few weeks back). But, REALITY is just the opposite. Republicans champion Americans who’ve been EXPLOITED BY OUR REPUBLICAN/DEMOCRAT GOVERNMENT AND USED AS GLOBAL POLICE. I’d rather they just stay home altogether.
  
  Here’s a video for you:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=D5XBFChpIJ0
  
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eramthgin
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:01pm
Makes me tear up just watching them. God bless and keep all patriots and their families.

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nzkiwi
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:00pm
“These videos just never, ever get old.”

No. No, they certainly don’t…

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Brother Winston Smith
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 9:21pm
Lucky. A lot of the soldiers (who are used as pawns) never return from the Beck/Republican/Democrat (same thing) UNCONSTITUTIONAL, ISOLATIONIST nation-building. And many who do, after multiple tours, end up killing themselves.
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- RLTW
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 9:48pm
  Wars have been won and lost through the history of man, as much as you would like to paint it as a futile effort (and it may be) the love for my brother, and the choices we make matter.
  
  If on the battlefield we see one thing that pulls our heart and forces our principles and virtues to the top, we fight because injustice must be met. A moral man in an immoral situation is at times needed whether by his country, brother or his individual need to do right within his/her given situation.
  
  You by your post have never really served; if you did you never actually had any real fire in your belly.
  
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- luxlife
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:28pm
  (cue cuckoo clock)
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:01pm
  Wow, my earlier post to Winston got deleted. Let me try again, in a different manner.
  
  Winston, yeah, the suicide rate for service men & women are high…I agree. But lets’ celebrate those who come home to loving families…and may they live long lives.
  
  As far as your comments are concerned, let me raise a middle finger towards you in salute. Hopefully, this post in response to your comment will survive.
  
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- txannie
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 11:00am
  @bro.win.smith…ok, so our system is broke, i get that from you…but what do you propose? non-isolationism on the level of like becoming ‘one with the world’ like, oh, say europe or the middle east? Nothing special there, no freedoms, no individuality, despots in charge, hunger, poverty, filth and disease rampant….is that what you would rather we have here in America?
  
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AUsername
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 9:20pm
This is done so often by many folks and what exactly makes this one so special?

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- CloudNine
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 9:28pm
  Please tell us your experience being away from your family in a war zone for a year and then tell us how the reunion went…!
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:37pm
  It’s called the individual reaction of a family that due to currant technology we are allowed to be a part of, we can share a moment of the end of lost time between a father and son and understand if just for a moment the loss of time they experience every day.
  
  Does that clear things up sh!tbag?
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:38pm
  Username….
  
  It NEVER gets old, and it is ALWAYS special. Apparently, you have NO FREAKING IDEA what it is like for service men and women to be away from their families for 6 months, 9 months, a year, or even 2 years.
  
  Man, I was in the Navy in the early 80′s….peace time for US troops; but even then, we did 9 month deployments on my ship. I didn’t have a family then, but I saw what these deployments did to families. Its tough.
  
  You don’t have a clue. So go screw yourself you *****.
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 10:01am
  its you neo cons fault there out there, because of your magic islamic boogeyman and zionist appeasement of an illegal occupation in thie middle east and i don’t think our troops should fight for that.
  
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- USALOVER2011
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 10:53am
  It is very SPECIAL because every time our service members comes home safe and sound, the family becomes whole again….Our sons will have their father with them, and he will have our sons and me to take care of him, and he is here to take care of us… Every time I see a video like this makes me cry, but with happy tears, and it will never get old…I know that the majority of Americans understands what we have to go through, but then there are people like you!!!!
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 9:20pm
It’s really heartbreaking, coming home to a stadium filled with people that suport the religion of Islam?

That statement makes a lot of people cry, doesn’t it?

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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:52pm
  Really? Do you really want to go down that road? I think there are plenty of posts already that demonstrate that your opinion in this context is irrellavent. Are you an American? Have you served? If you have, then you just don’t get it. If you haven’t, then you REALLY don’t get it.
  
  F U!
  
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UnwantedFoe
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 9:17pm
Umm… neither of the son’s last names are that of the fathers… and each of the son’s last names are different, wtf?

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- Jondolar
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:01pm
  To unwantedfoe,
  
  Could it be that it’s a blended family? You know… Joe marries Sue who already has a son. It’s possible that she dies and he remarries another who also has a son of a different age. Duh? It’s known to happen.
  
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- UnwantedFoe
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 3:08pm
  So you are suggesting this is his third wife? Seems unlikely
  
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TRILO
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 9:15pm
It is so heartwarming to see this family reunited. I am thankful he made it home safe. What a great school to participate in the homecoming. I pray all military families are as fortunate.

While I have a mouthful to say, I will bite my tongue and not say anything political.

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banjarmon
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 9:15pm
This is what AMERICA is all about!!!

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momrules
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 8:57pm
Tears of joy because Daddy’s home.

How I wish that every American soldier would be brought home from the hellhole of Afghanistan but until that day I cheer each and every one of these reunions.

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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:46pm
  Amen
  
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