if you re finding yourself feeling tinmanish if you need to get the water works going proving the heart is still there thumping, you go to youtube and type in the search feature homecoming soldier iraq. in fact there is a whole video blog called the welcome home blog, just videos, pages and pages of videos of american soldiers coming home from the wars. surprising their families and their kids and in some cases their dogs welcoming them home. if you re feeling tinmanish and need to exercise your tear ducts, this is the way to do it. afghanistan war continues, 90,000 americans deployed, the target date for ending that war is not this year, not next year but the end of the year after that. the iraq war is over. it has been six weeks since the last u.s. troops crossed in kuwait for the last time. while the trip back from iraq led to lots of emotional homecomings, for families at
blog called the welcome home blog, just videos, pages and pages of videos of american soldiers coming home from the wars and surprising their families and their kids and in some cases their dogs welcoming them home. if you re feeling tinmanish and need to exercise your tear ducts, this is the way to do it. the afghanistan war, of course, tens. 90,000 americans deployed in afghanistan now. the target date for ending that war is not this year, not next year but the end of the year after that. the iraq war is over. it has been six weeks since the last u.s. troops crossed in kuwait for the last time. while the trip back from iraq led to lots of emotional homecomings, for military families at home and at military bases. in.civilian world there has been no welcome home ceremony, no end of the ir war celebration, to say thank you to the troops. there s been no ticker tape, no
best friends. the touching moment like many others is what inspired our next guests to dedicate a web site to military reunions. chase holfelder is the founder of the welcome home blog. where did you get this idea? you know, i had just come across several surprise military homecoming videos on my facebook feed and various e-mail chains and i d always thought the videos would be especially heart warming so one day i was searching on line looking for more videos to watch and i realized there wasn t a centralized location to watch more videos of this kind so i decided to make one and i launched it in june of last year and it was pretty much immediately a hit. huge. and kellie pickler helped you out big time, didn t she? she gave me a shoutout sometime last year. it was pretty cool. she did that and people came flooding. you re getting 50 videos a week. getting submissions from military families from all over the world. what do you think is consistent in all these videos that s
definiteli defended the exact argument that they were using. back when you went to elementary school, we said the lord s prayer in school and slowly but surely, things have changed. maybe christmas won t be a federal holiday coming up if it continues down this path. here s some more a little bit later on, we ll have more angry people. that were there. angrier than jesse and gretchen combined. up in providence this morning, they have a poll, what should they call that tree next year? 86% of the people and it s thousands say call it a christmas tree. by the way, the governor before chafee for eight years called it a christmas tree. it s the moment a father comes home from war. watch this. hey, babe. hey. oh! all in one place. the founder of the welcome home