We Dare You Not to Cry: Boy With Palsy Greets His Soldier Father by Walking to Him for the First Time
- Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:25am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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If you could see me write this story, you would find me with tears in my eyes — and that’s after reading the video description one more time. Watching the video is even tougher.
That‘s because you’re about to watch a 6-year-old with palsy walk to his dad — a returning U.S. soldier — for the first time. I‘ll let the boy’s mother explain (via the Welcome Home blog):
When my husband left on his deployment, our 6-year-old son could not walk on his own. He has cerebral palsy. Doctors originally said that he would never walk or do much of anything. While daddy was away, he learned to walk. For his homecoming, we set it up for Michael to walk to his daddy for the first time ever! We kept the fact that he could walk a secret the whole time his dad was gone!
When Fox’s Gretchen Carlson saw the video this morning, she broke down and couldn’t even finish the segment. You‘ll see why that’s not an overreaction in a second:
It’s an incredibly happy story that makes stories like this one even more poignant.
(H/T: Gateway Pundit)
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Comments (179)
welovetheUSA
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:59amBless this family……..and our soliders.
Report Post »Jackers
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 10:18amThis beautiful boy is a true hero. Against all odds, he walked “FORWARD” to his father… Real courage, real dedication, a real direction forward…
Awesome and inspiring…
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 10:35amGod bless the boy and his family…
Report Post »brezzeone
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 11:30amAmen
Report Post »TargetDestroyed01
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 11:45amCopy that.
Semper Fi.
TD01
Report Post »Reason365
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 12:21pmThis video is filed under ALL TIME favorite. I’m a dad and was inspired to do as much with my kids as I possibly can. Truly AWESOME !!!!!
Report Post »rambosharley
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 2:40pmThis little boy made my day! Thank you and God bless you!
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:15pmI made it 1:12.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:18pmAmerica is worth saving!
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:55pmYep…. crying
Passed in on in an email and cried trying to send it.
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 5:22pmWOW!!!!
That is one of the most touching things I have ever seen!
Why in the world would anyone say that boy has no value?!
Report Post »I still can’t believe people want to kill kids like that before they even give them a shot at a good life or find out how much they enrich the lives of the people around them!
May God RICHLY bless that family!
I have worked with the handicapped my entire life (from kindergarten on… I am 32 now). I have seen the depth of love those people have to give. They amaze me! I have never heard them ask.. “why me?” They only give and love. Their value may not be in what they can produce with their hands. No. Their value is in what they produce IN US!
LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 6:30pmThis touched me deeply. Beautiful, just beautiful…..
Report Post »db321
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 6:30pmA whole family of Hero’s! God Bless the All!
Report Post »RGFROMTEXAS
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 6:41pmThis made my day…still does…but took a little away after reading posts invoking Nazi’s (MACPAPPY) and Hitler(MLFOURNIER). This has no play here…you people are sad….The hate just continues !!
Report Post »satotbs
Posted on May 11, 2012 at 9:59amTo all the atheists out there, do you think your tears are evolution? There is still time. God’s arms never close.
Report Post »TWO BITS
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:51amWhat a beautiful family reunion! God bless this family. Welcome home to the soldier, and may the mom have a Happy and Blessed Mother’s Day!
Report Post »ChildofJesus
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:27am:’) bawling..bless that little boy.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 11:05amI’m right there with you….
Report Post »Tusker
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 12:53pmWatched it 5 minutes ago and I’m STILL bawling! God Bless our Soldiers! What a great homecoming! BRB, need more tissues!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:21amDoes anyone doubt that this little boy would be deemed useless to society and euthanized if the brave new world of Soros and Obama came to fruition? Given a free hand, you know they would.
Report Post »Baja
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:46amI had the same thought.
Report Post »A1955Rosie
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:46amMichael TEACHES US what we can do when we don’t know better. These are the gifts these children bring to us. Thank you God.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 10:30amDon’t doubt it for a New York millisecond!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 10:42amIn fact GONZO here‘s where Obama’s former health care rationing czar Don Berwick, agrees with you…
“The social budget is limited — we have a limited resource pool. It makes terribly good sense to at least know the price of an added benefit, and at some point we might say nationally, regionally, or locally that we wish we could afford it, but we can’t.” I love that one..“the social budget”.
Here’s my favourite…”society makes decisions about rationing all the time,“ and that the ”decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. And right now, we are doing it blindly.”
So yes GONZO..in the lefties ideal world…this little boy would have been aborted and never been able to walk to his father. He just would have been too much of a burden on “the social budget”.
Report Post »PJ3
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 10:45amSo true.
Report Post »Joe Schmuck
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 11:07amThank God for stories like that.
We need reminders like Gonzo’s come November. Another 4 years of Obama and we may never know the little hero’s of the future.
Report Post »john luther
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 11:08amI Understand what you are saying but come on this is a great story cant it just be left at that .
Report Post »Infidel49
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 11:30amThat is when I go on the offensive, it will be my new cause in life
Report Post »Joe Schmuck
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 11:46am_JL …. Left at that?
I’m all for that and wouldn’t that be nice? However, look where we are at and who is leading. It all happened because we took our eye off the ball.
We trusted our elected to do what they are paid to do without micro-managing the shop. And now we can’t fire them.
I drool for the time that we can just leave it at that and enjoy the story. BUT, if Obama gets his way, we may never see the little ‘Mikies’ of the future. They stories will be much different. Much sadder.
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 12:23pmHow right you are, Gonzo. God Bless our Servicemen/women and families. This family and especially the young boy with palsy are so proud of him that they aren’t even thinking of the challenges they have gone through and will go through.
I have tears of joy and God loves all his children and no man has any right to destroy anything made by God.
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 12:38pmavengerk – where the majority of children with CP become affected through strokes suffered during difficult or traumatic birthing, he very possibly would have become a “post-birth” abortion.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 12:38pmGonz
Report Post »They would do that over my dead body.
macpappy
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 1:16pmGonzo
Report Post »We don’t have to wait, just look at our own history.
Last spring a Michigan court rejected, because the statute of limitations had expired, the suit of a man who had been sterilized at the age of 18, ostensibly on the grounds of feeble-mindedness. But the case cast light on a largely forgotten chapter of America’s past: the compulsory sterilization of tens of thousands of people for “eugenic” reasons. America’s eugenics laws served as a model for the racial laws passed by the Nazis in Germany.
Fred Aslin was 10 years old in 1936, when he was confined to the Lapeer State School, a closed psychiatric facility in the state of Michigan. His eight siblings were confined there as well. His father had died shortly before, and his mother was unable to care for the children on her own. Aslin, a former farmer in Indiana, had never understood exactly why he and his siblings were thrown into a psychiatric clinic, since neither he nor they were in any way mentally handicapped. “But we were poor, and we were Indians,” he notes. At the age of 18, he was sterilized against his will, as were four of his siblings.
mlfournier
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 4:43pmGonzo, you are absolutely correct. In fact if you really watch what Obamanation is doing right before our very eyes, it may come sooner than anyone thinks. The Great Divider has opened our top secret information to our enemies by appointing members of the Muslim Brotherhood to key positions in the Dept of Homeland Security and the Dept of Defense. Just research them and you can find all kind of info on their secretive evil tactics. The DoD has been purchasing millions of rounds of hollow point ammo – 450 million up till now. What is their reason for this massive purchase? People had better be prepared as the election gets closer. Obama fears that he will lose and his agenda of turning our countr into a Socialist State will not go “FORWARD”. His actions indicate that he possibly has a Plan B ready. By the way, “FORWARD” was Hitler’s motto for making “fundamental” changes in Germany. The German people fell for it back then. Will the American people fall for it now?
And as for Mikey – God Bless his loving and giving heart. He and his Mom had to work very hard so he could surprise his Dad. And a great big hand for his Mom for seeing his possibilies rather than his limitations.
God Bless This Whole family.
Report Post »cmonnow
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 5:29pmGONZO and all the rest of you. You are completely wrong and uninformed. As this man is a soldier, hopefully the government is helping with this child.
Many Americans are uninsured. Do you think insurance companies are going to take somebody with palsy onto their registers if their parents are not already insured?? Only the government will insure such people.
Unfortunately, there is no insurance plan that can help you to grow a brain.
http://cerebralpalsycosts.com/aid.html
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on May 11, 2012 at 2:55amIt’s demons like Soros who need to be euthanized (with piano wire)
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:20amAmerica, as it was founded, will never perish. The love a father has for his children and wife will never perish. These things will never perish because they are precious to Jesus. Woe to the person who would try to corrupt these things.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 10:08amAnd yet divorce rates are over 50% ,72% of black kids are born out of wedlock and over 54% to dead beat dads, who are forced by the courts to take care of their kids. America is parishing under the new ever expanding immoral society that is not only accepted but embraced and celebrated by the populist,main stream media,and the democratic party.
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 11:09amyes, the corruption of America’s Christ-centered society is due to progressive/liberal/socialist/ communist/democratic party actions but God is greater than these groups and the result of their evil actions.
Report Post »Tigress1
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:14amTHAT is what is important in life! What a homecoming!
Also, WELCOME HOME to ALL the soldiers!
Report Post »P8riot
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 11:29amright on. This really is what its all about.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:14amThe little girl with the plate of cookies is very patient.
Report Post »thehormonalhillbilly
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:12amGod bless’em. That’s a MAN right there. And you’re right, I did cry.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:11amThese children are so innocent and they deserve nothing but all of our love.
Correction the serviceman is NOT a “soldier” he is a Marine.
Semper Fi!
Report Post »c0mm0nsense
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:09amHere is another one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLuqIWwTYK4
Report Post »Tusker
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 1:03pmOMG! Commonsense, this one gets me EVERY TIME they play it on TV! EVERY time! It reminds me of my reaction every time my dad would come home from an op!
Even these posts are making me cry! (tears of joy) Thanks for posting that one Commonsense!
Report Post »PurrrpleMtnMajesty
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:07amWow…was such a beautiful picture of total love, sacrifice, loyalty & reunion.
Report Post »I think of my Lord when watching this….our returning King to Whom we will
do all that we can to run into His arms someday!
There is such respect and determination, in both the eyes of the boy and the soldier.
Really, this should be shown forever in clips on TV.
I’d rather see this than ANYTHING Hollywood could produce. Who needs them when
life can be so beautiful because a family who gave all are reunited in hope?
Johnnybravo
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:04amI most have something in my eyes,they keep watering.
Report Post »PATRIOTMAMA
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:27amYa that’s it I have something in both my eyes. Must be dust!!!! lol.
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 11:06amMe too…I think its from my cats dander and fur…(wink-wink)
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 11:49amMy hayfever is acting up again
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 4:14pmWhat ever, i’m crying like a baby…………………..
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:04amAnyone else feel like JESUS is the soldier/dad and we are like this son Michael?
What I loved was the father’s waiting for his son, allowing the child to do all he could before the father took that long step out to wrap his son in his arms and lift him up. Someday, JESUS will do that for each of us, too.
I‘m sure you all noticed as I did the father’s sweetness with each of his children. How safe we are with men /fathers and women / mothers as GOD ordained the family unit.
Wonderful video, no matter how many times I watch it. Thank YOU GOD, and thank you Blaze.
Report Post »PurrrpleMtnMajesty
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:10amWe were writing similar reactions at the same time! Yup, the Spirit of the Lord, had His mighty hand on this event and I believe all who witness it will be blessed & uplifted.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:11amA wonderful way of looking at it KICK…………well said and Amen.
Report Post »feddup
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:03amWhat can I say? Words can’t express the beauty of that video.
Report Post »Sharon Rose
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:00amEveryone that has a heart, had to cry viewing this touching video. God bless this family and god bless the USA.
Report Post »Blazebanned
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:52amMy allergies are making my eyes water this morning…………
Report Post »If odumbass is elected for a second term, scenes like this will never happen again……..
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:50amGod bless them all; may He keep them safe and togeather as a family in the times ahead. Miracles do still happen, large and small. Amen.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:10amMorning, SNOW, hope all is well in AZ. Been reading but not posting so much lately but keep you in my thoughts, as well as our other “old time” posters. God bless.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 11, 2012 at 6:53pm@Grandmaof5 – hotter than heck here, but nothing compared to what our soldiers face; glad to see the miracle one soldier got to behold on his return, may they all come home soon.
Report Post »adeleeeee
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:50amThe boy adores his father. Family is very important and the role of a father is vital!
Report Post »momrules
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:46amYes, I cried, still am as I write this.
God bless the child, the Mother and the other children of this soldier and God thank You for getting him home safely to his family..
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:50amThank you for expressing so well what is in my heart too. I am wiping away the tears. Children like this precious boy deserve all that can be done to help them live better lives.
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:45amAll you lefties that think you know what “quality of life ” issues are and still can’t see the value here, well I feel sorrow and pity for you. You will probably never get it. Some governments in the world today would have decided that this young man shouldn’t be a burden……you lefties better think long and hard about “transforming” my homeland…..
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:57amAmen. Someday they may be walking in those shoes (when they grow up and learn the value of life). Just because things are rough, dig down and make it happen. God bless Michael and his family; and thank you, sir, for your service to our great nation.
Report Post »mdmike1
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:22amA-flippen-men!
Report Post »Amy
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:43amWhat a surprise for ‘Daddy.’
Back in the 60s there was a song called ‘Daddy’s Home’ which was often played for returning sailors and soldiers while families were anxiously waiting on piers and in stadiums. This Daddy had a wonderful homecoming.
Bravo to Mom to for all her hard work too.
Report Post »brntout
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:39amHow fitting,Queen’s “We Are The Champions ” was playing in the backround at the start of the video…
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:37amDamn…I got something in my eyes…
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:55amDamn allergies…..sniff, sniff
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 1:07pmThat was a powerful video, anyone not affected needs to take a long look in the mirror.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:35amOur GOD smiles on HIS kids and blesses us all so very, very much. Thank YOU LORD for loving us this much. In JESUS’ sweet name, amen.
Report Post »Vickie Dhaene
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 12:26pmAmen..
Report Post »Pure joy to witness God’s work.
lynnissmart
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:34amBrought tears to my eyes……at 3:34 a.m……great news and touching to the heart!
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