I have a friend of 22 years who came home safely from Afghanistan yesterday. He crewed on a C-130 gunship and spent over a year doing so. Yesterday he came home to a large contingent of friends and relatives. He has a family of 3 waiting for him, a wife and 2 children, ages 8 and 12. From what I understand, the airport reunion was touching and there probably wasn't a dry eye in the group when 8 year old Cyndi exclaimed as she ran to him and jumped into his arms:
MY DADDY'S HOME, MY DADDY'S HOME....
Well, unfortunately there wasn't any video shot of the event but there is one video I want to show you.
As I am both a war veteran and someone who has waited for someone to come home from war, I know the feelings that prevail within. Sure you tuck that worry and fear deep inside you and try to go on day to day, but you always keep hope and you always prepare for that day that someone is going to tell you something horrible that will change your life forever.
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All the fear, all the worry and all the nagging anxiety drop away from her like a mercury overcoat as she sees her dad in her classroom.
Reference the "mercury overcoat". That has to be the most bizarre yet understandable simile I've ever heard. The mental visualization makes it work. This is one of the lines I have read and wish I had written it.
I couldn't even watch it. Tears welled up before I even finished reading your post Ken.
Koz...don't worry. I've watched it probably 2 dozen times and it still makes me cry like a little girl. I'm amazed that I haven't "conditioned" myself to this one yet. It still strikes me deep and hard. You really should watch it though....albeit when no one else is around.
That's what I do.
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