{"id":308,"date":"2014-01-05T17:44:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T17:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2016-04-06T23:49:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T23:49:29","slug":"welcome-home-you-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/05\/welcome-home-you-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Home – You Rock!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s always amazing to see a large crowd come out to BWI to welcome home our Military and their families who are returning from overseas.\u00a0 Saturday December 28, 2013 was the largest crowd I’ve seen yet.\u00a0 Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, community groups, families who just wanted to come and express their gratitude…\u00a0 It was heartwarming and emotional to see a mother meeting the son she hadn’t seen for 3 years.\u00a0 And the mother reunited with her toddler after a foreign tour of duty.\u00a0 And all the other families who were reunited with each other.\u00a0 I especially love greeting those many troops who don’t have anyone there to greet them when they set foot back on American soil.\u00a0 A simple “Welcome Home” and “Thank You” can mean the world to someone who has been away from home for so long.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t been to a Welcome Home event, you should try it.\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 Check the arrivals calendar at http:\/\/www.operationwelcomehomemd.org\/<\/a> or OWHMD’s Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It’s always amazing to see a large crowd come out to BWI to welcome home our Military and their families who are returning from overseas.\u00a0 Saturday December 28, 2013 was the largest crowd I’ve seen yet.\u00a0 Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, community groups, families who just wanted to come and express their gratitude…\u00a0 It was heartwarming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[22,36,20,21,26,24,17,173,38,19,172,27,37,28,35,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-owhmd","8":"tag-airport","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-baltimore","11":"tag-bwi","12":"tag-deployment","13":"tag-homecoming","14":"tag-maryland","15":"tag-military","16":"tag-military-homecoming","17":"tag-operation-welcome-home","18":"tag-owhmd","19":"tag-soldiers","20":"tag-troops","21":"tag-us-military","22":"tag-volunteer","23":"tag-welcome-home","24":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/owhmd_12.28_128_WEB.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3jeT6-4Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5224,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/5224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}