This is awesome | Happy Fourth!

[TerryTate]

NSIAP - saw this on sportscenter yesterday. It's really well done.

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Thank you for your service!

 

[arrowryan]

I think they are making a summer series out of this. Kinda like the "Make A Wish" series. But yeah, this stuff makes me tear up every time

 

[ACamp1900]

My brother in law, Lt.Col in the Marines, just shipped out last week for his sixth (I believe) foreign deployment.

Words can’t really describe from there…

 

[ACamp1900]

I think they are making a summer series out of this. Kinda like the "Make A Wish" series. But yeah, this stuff makes me tear up every time

The little girl at about the 4 minute mark got me bad... so young, yet completely understanding enough to lose it emotionally... military kids man.

 

[Me2SouthBend]

I've got a nephew who left for Abu Dabai(?) last month and another that just got back from Afghanistan in Feb. God Bless them and all other service members.

 

[irishpat183]

I cannot watch this stuff. There is somethign wrong with my eyes and the computer screen or something...allergies....

 

[woolybug25]

If anybody can watch this without tearing up, then they simply don't have a soul.

 

[Me2SouthBend]

I cannot watch this stuff. There is somethign wrong with my eyes and the computer screen or something...allergies....

If anybody can watch this without tearing up, then they simply don't have a soul.

Aaron Hernandez could.

 

[ozzman]

Reminds me of how my mom reacted when I showed up on leave from AF. She had no idea I was going to be there and just about tackled me when she saw me.

 

[gkIrish]

Cried throughout. God bless those men and women

 

[military_irish]

See I made the mistake of dusting as I was watching the video. Something must have got in my eye.

 

[mriguy]

Yes very touching. God bless the men and women of are armed forces and their families.

 

[ND_HAS_RISEN]

Thank you for this Terry! Its so easy to take for granted what we have until its gone, and stuff like this makes me feel blessed!!

Hug you're spouse and kids and tell them you love them at every chance!

 

[irishog77]

Bump

 

[kmoose]

For those of you who have never had the opportunity to come home from a six month peacetime deployment, let alone a 12+ month combat deployment, and see your loved ones waiting there for you... I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you have missed out on one of the most incredible, indescribable feelings that one can encounter in their life. I'm not married, nor do I have kids, so I can only imagine the emotions that those events evoke; but nothing I had experienced before, or since, can compare to seeing the look on my (then) girlfriend's, and her son's, faces when I got off of the plane.

Thanks Terry.

 

[clashmore_mike]

I cannot watch this stuff. There is somethign wrong with my eyes and the computer screen or something...allergies....

Brian Kelly's fault

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Reminds me of how my mom reacted when I showed up on leave from AF. She had no idea I was going to be there and just about tackled me when she saw me.

I hadn't seen my parents for about a year. Got a series of last minute flights, even had to sprint from one end of E to the other of F at O'Hare. Got a ride with my sea bag from the airport. Walked up to the side door and rang the bell. Mom answered, she said, "Hello?" Didn't even recognize me! I can relate. She went nuts!

Happy Independence Day, everyone!

 

[BGIF]

For those of you who have never had the opportunity to come home from a six month peacetime deployment, let alone a 12+ month combat deployment, and see your loved ones waiting there for you... I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you have missed out on one of the most incredible, indescribable feelings that one can encounter in their life. I'm not married, nor do I have kids, so I can only imagine the emotions that those events evoke; but nothing I had experienced before, or since, can compare to seeing the look on my (then) girlfriend's, and her son's, faces when I got off of the plane.

Thanks Terry.

There's been a lot of years in between,

Thanks Terry and Thank you, moose!

 

[IrishSteelhead]

Very powerful stuff. Leave it to ESPN to make the video about Lebron at the end and not the soldiers and their families.

 

[irishog77]

Very powerful stuff. Leave it to ESPN to make the video about Lebron at the end and not the soldiers and their families.

Huh?

 

[ulukinatme]

God bless our men and women in uniform. Happy 4th to everyone

 

[ozzman]

I hadn't seen my parents for about a year. Got a series of last minute flights, even had to sprint from one end of E to the other of F at O'Hare. Got a ride with my sea bag from the airport. Walked up to the side door and rang the bell. Mom answered, she said, "Hello?" Didn't even recognize me! I can relate. She went nuts!

Happy Independence Day, everyone!

Best part was that I was on relaxed grooming standards so hadn't cut my hair or shaved the whole time I was gone. Didn't matter that I looked like a werewolf, she still knew it was me immediately.

What branch is/was everyone in? I'm Navy.