Daddy's Home - pic

[Kadie]

Dad's back: Seven-year-old Jack Baumert wipes a tear after spotting the vehicle carrying his father, Chief Warrant Officer II James Baumert, into the armory in Brooklyn Center, Minn. About 100 National Guard soldiers returned home after a 22-month deployment.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. 22 months??

That's just WRONG.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

4. Too damn wrong ...

[tridim]

10. Yep, and all the Republics want him to go back again and again..

and again, until that poor kid has no father.

[Hand]

14. Especially for a seven-year-old.

Twenty-two months is an eternity at that age. I'm just glad that his daddy made it back to him, and I wish them all happiness. Just hope Dad's head is still straight after what he's been through.

[Kadie]

27. Unbelievable.

I keep thinking about this little boy, and all the other children, that have missed so much.

:cry:

[Zywiec]

2. Great pic. Thanks for posting. n/t

[Swamp Rat]

3. Poor kid

:cry:

[proud patriot]

5. Great Picture

:)

[SoonerPride]

6. Thank you for sharing. 22 months is a damned eternity.

I hope he gets to stay at home for at least 6 months.

The way they keep shortening rotations, you never know.

Welcome home, stay home, stay safe.

[babylonsister]

7. One lucky kid; Daddy didn't come home in a box, which is where

I thought you might be going. :(

[LittleClarkie]

26. Me too

I was afraid to read the post. Even now I'm fighting tears.

[YDogg]

8. Poor kid. Just wants his dad.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

9. Bless your heart Jack

:hug: :cry: :hug:

Thank you Kadie :pals:

[Beaverhausen]

11. that pic is making me cry

god damn Bush to hell for what he is doing to our soldiers!

[Diane R]

12. I hope george bush rots. This is unconscionable.

[driver8]

13. 22 Months??!! That is a lifetime to a little kid...

I'm sure it's a lifetime to the men and women in uniform as well.

How much more should our troops be expected to put up with? How many lives and families have been destroyed because of these filthy liars?

Jesus...these poor families.

[Supersedeas]

28. 22 Months wasted for a lie...so much life squandered by the incompetence of W

[liberal N proud]

15. 22 months is 26% of that young boys life

Do you know how much a kid changes in 2 years at that age?

[Canuckistanian]

16. The kid was probably 5 years old when Dad left

Now, he's a seven-year old. That's an eternity in a father/son relationship.

And phone calls and emails don't count.

I don't think many of us realize what Jack has been though.

[Kadie]

24. So true, Canuckistanian.

I don't think many of us realize what Jack has been though.

Heartbreaking.

[ginnyinWI]

17. heartbreaking. n/t

[BrotherBuzz]

18. One weekend a month, two weeks a year.....

Is the former slogan used by the U.S. Army National Guard.

Times have been better

[Jack Bone]

19. Hugs and happy reunions

Hugs and happy reunions

http://www.minnesotanationalguard.org/press_room/e-zine/articles/index.php?item=857

After nearly two years of deployment in Iraq, and a week of demobilization in Wisconsin, hundreds of Minnesota National Guard Soldiers are returning home to the state this week. Reunions are occurring all across the state as families, friends and loved ones of Soldiers gather at armories around the region.

In Bloomington Monday, 52 members of the National Guard were reunited with family and friends. Like the other welcome home gatherings across the state, this one consisted of two parts.

Part 1 is the anticipation.

"We can't wait. We're just so anxious and excited," said Cindy and Tim Shanley, as they waited for their son, 1st Lt. Andrew Shanley.

He's one of more than 700 members of the 34th Infantry Division, known as the Red Bulls. Cindy Shanley is carrying a red hankerchief with the Red Bull insignia. She says the long deployment has been made bearable by the easy access to e-mail and phone calls. Shanley says she got a call from her son weekly.

"And if I didn't get that phone call once a week I'd freak. So then I'd get on the Internet and I'd go, 'Why aren't you e-mailing me?' And then I'd say, 'Where's my phone call?'" <snip>

[partylessinOhio]

20. Send the photo to Nancy - tell her to rip off her "Love Bush" button

and impeach him for crimes against AMERICA!

Madame Squeaker surrounded herself and her gavel with little children. They all had their rich fathers. Tell her not to forget kids like Jack who have been denied their moms and dads for an invasion and occupation for Bush/Lies. It's criminal!

[helderheid]

21. .

:cry: Breaks my heart!

[PearliePoo2]

22. I just now

copied this picture and sent it to all in my e-mail address book.
I put the subject "High Crimes and Misdemeanors "
:cry:

[Kadie]

23. That was a good idea.

I think I may do the same.

[Oilwellian]

25. Poor baby

I hope he and his dad can make up for all of the nurturing they lost. :cry: