That small boy with a disability trying to walk to his daddy. 🤗😥🤗

@Dfourteens

2 ай бұрын

That little boy has cerebral palsy and this was the first time the father had ever seen his son walk.

@MonguSu1952

2 ай бұрын

But the kid never made those last few steps because his dad RAN to him! 🥰

Watching this today brings me to tears. Today is Memorial Day in the US where we remember those soldiers who never made it home

A lot of people don't realize that the family sacrifices just as much as the soldiers do. The soldier has the constant duties of deployment to worry about while the spouse and children are living with the fear that their loved one my be severely injured in combat or may never return at all. The soldier is usually too busy to think much about the separation where that's all the family can think about. The stresses of the family and constant worry for soldier's safety and well being is why there is a greater than 60 percent chance that the marriage of a soldier will end in divorce.

I've got 4 of my 8 kid's in service. All 3 son's and a daughter. It's been 8 years since I have had all my kids for a holiday. Either deployment or college. Last Christmas they all planned it. Was able to be home all together. I don't think I stopped crying for days.

I keep it together pretty well until the "Oh, Daddy!" girl @5:57 Always gets me.

72 year old male here and I tear up every time I watch these homecoming videos.

That small boy with the disability (I've seen the full video on this) - this is the first time his Dad had ever seen him walk!! Gets me every time!!!

It's a very emotional thing. These kids don't know WHEN they will see them again and IF they will even make it home from war. It's beautiful!

People often tell me “thank you for your service”. My wife tells me to just say “thank you”. I consider serving as my guilty pleasure because I am proud to have served in the US Marine Corps for 21 years and loved what we did together in arms. I stand firm that it is the spouses and children who deserve the thanks. The kids are born into it and they form a strong bond with other military children. Only they understand what they go through emotionally when their parents deploy for weeks or months at a time. I accumulated more than 13 years total time deployed for training or combat and away from my family. These families become tough and cope with it as a community.

The clip at 4:32 is extra special as the little boy is walking to his dad for the first time. The child had never been able to walk before due to his disability and his walking to his dad was the result of just over a year of intense 4 hours per day of physical therapy. This clip was the first time that his father had ever seen him stand on his own in his entire life.

@billmarshall5040

2 ай бұрын

😅

Please remember we have had hundreds of thousands and continue to have Moms, Dads, Brothers and Sisters go over-seas... for months to years sometimes. This also ties into the Pride we have for our Country and Flag.

People don't know the sacrifice that everyone in the family makes, when a parent is in the military. It caused my family to break apart.

I'm not crying, you are! *sniff sniff Love these vids

Damn I got dust in my eyes!!!!

Never fails to bring a tear

Anyone that didn't shed a tear watching this isn't human.

I don't know if you know the process of a family member (who's a soldier) that dies in a war, but please watch the movie called Taking Chance with the actor Kevin Bacon. Kevin's character is a military escort who brings the soldier's body to his family, the process, honor, respect, and ca re that goes into preparing the body, staying with the body all the way to his family. With the video you just reacted to the tears were: relief, joy, filled with a different kinds of emotions, with Taking Chance the emotions are very different. I hope you watch it for yourselves, but, if you are able to, please react to this very important movie, thank you.

@user-kg7co9vi5r

2 ай бұрын

Perhaps a family reaction video?

@hopegeoghegan4184

2 ай бұрын

This is a great movie.

@FUBAR956

2 ай бұрын

Taking Chance is one of my favorite movies. I agree, y’all need to watch it.

@AC-ni4gt

2 ай бұрын

I remember watching this film before. It deepened my understanding and respect for anyone in the Armed Forces.

@larrycummings7300

2 ай бұрын

Highly recommend this movie. Tough to watch but worth it.

Someone cutting onions in here?

I'm the same as Jono, I can easily go down the rabbit hole with these kinds of videos. Sometimes I watch videos like surprise homecomings when life just feels a little tough and I want something more wholesome.

This video is even better the second time around. The handicapped boy struggling to get to his dad made me lose it. ❤😢

My Dad’s deployments (US Navy) were always about 9-10 months…in fact, I didn’t meet my dad for the first time until I was 7 months old. He had already been gone two months before I was born. I can relate to all these emotions.

My man raising his family the right way. God bless you guys.

My husband served for 30 years on submarines. Very limited contact. Our son and I looked forward to every single homecoming no matter is it was 4 weeks, or 9 months. They were all special because he came home.

I've been on both sides of the coin, my Dad was in the Navy for 26 yrs and I did 20 so I've experienced those feelings. I love these videos.

Im an Army Brat, both my parents' service in the Army they were stationed in Germany, where I was born. And then we were transferred back to the United States in California. My parents were stationed out of Monterey. However, my mother had to stay longer in the military. Because of the maternally leave. She had to take because she gave birth to 3 more children while in the Army so when she came home. Back in 89. She woke me up with a kiss. So when I see these children jumping into their parents arms remind me of that time

Got a story for you- I was stationed in Germany in the Army with my wife and kids from 1982-85. My son was born there and he was 14 months old when I finally got 30 days leave to go back home and visit. I had been trying to get leave for 5 months before it finally got approved. We didn't tell ANYONE that it got approved. I showed up at home at 6:30 am with the family, TOTALLY unannounced. My Mom was napping on the couch- she had just gotten back home from taking my Stepfather to work and didn't need to wake up my brothers and sisters until around 7 am for school. I shook her awake, she looked at me, blinked and shook her head TWICE before she realized that she WASN'T dreaming lol. It took 2 hrs before she finally chewed me out for doing that to her. I had been gone from June 82 until this leave, March 84. 22 months. My wife and kids joined me RIGHT before Christmas (best Christmas ever BTW) Dec 82, so they had been gone for 15 months.

I'm a army US army veteran 11 years I hadn't seen my family in over 11 years and when I came back from overseas I went to see them and all they said is oh you're home show videos like this means so much to me

@OkiePeg411

2 ай бұрын

Welcome home! If you were my , run from ½ the way around the world you give you a hug!!! My son is currently serving. Hes been in 12 years both Marines and Army. So he still has 8-10 years left to retire. I only saw him maybe 4 times during his 20s. It's been a year since I've been able to hug him.😢

@user-hr8zi6ns9u

2 ай бұрын

Thank you sir for your service,you deserved better than that so a lot of us out here thank you and appreciate you very much.

The US has over 800 bases OUTSIDE of America. Plus our Navy patrolling the oceans. Hundreds of thousands of our Nations Finest deserve every bit of this when they return and more. Then there are those that never get to return home. We owe them ALL. God Bless

GOD BLESS MY 6 VETERAN UNCLES

My brother surprised our family on Christmas Day for his “break” after 7 month in Afghanistan. Not a dry eye in the house. We love our military

I'm a 69 year old male and these videos never fail to bring a tears to my eyes.

We as a nation learned a lot from the way Viet Nam veterans were received. A man came in with his returning soldier son to our office in WV. I thanked him for hs service and his father cried.

I was an Army Brat also an Army vet. We moved every 3 to 4 years and in between them dad did two tours of Nam with the First Air Cav. He was a front line medic in the Korean conflict for 15 months. These are as real as it gets sometimes you did not know if he was coming back alive or with a flag draped over his casket

Just can't get enough of these moments. Love and safety too all of Our Service Men and Women.

That small boy with a disability trying to walk to his daddy, Was the first time his dad saw him walking.

U should react to soldiers coming home to pets...nothing like dogs crying with happiness ❤

This was a rough one to watch and I’m 84 , but thanks so much ,memories from the corners of my mind 🍀💚🍀

@karlsmith2570

2 ай бұрын

It'd been rough to watch these kinds of videos, regardless of your age

this is why we fight, is for our families, and i think the Americans are the best at showing that.

The family should be known as the silent military since they serve as well in the way of sacrifices and the like. An old army brat here. Mom made so Many sacrifices to help dad while he was deployed and when he was on base

Such a beautiful family! Wishing the best for you guys. Y'all are awesome

@5:59 That's the reaction that breaks me EVERYTIME.

I'm retired Air Force so I can relate to this very much. I can be difficult for people to remember that military people are people just like you with families, Wifes and kids. You might also want to watch people seeing color for the first time using special glasses. Just as emotional.

I have a 3yo boy and 7mo girl. I would never. If you tell me I have to leave my kids to go fight, I’m fighting you instead. When I’m not home my son constantly pesters, “Where’s daddy?”. Those words have ended my road rage and other dangerous activities.

These are the lucky ones. The music they play. 🫣

I have seen this video probably 10 times and it still gets me 😢

The first puppy videos always get me, too.

I'm always SO happy to see my nephew when he comes home to visit. Shoutout to the Devil Dogs. My Mom tells me stories about my Grandfather being gone, back when calling long distance was a special occasion. He spent over a year in Korea.

It doesn’t happen as often now in today’s military but in some cases the service members are away from their families for years..

Tomorrow you should watch when Dogs Welcome the Masters Home from the military, there are quite a few vids to choose from

I spent 20yrs in the U.S. Army. Of those 20yrs I spent 3 1/2yrs away deployed to foreign countries, 2 of those years were in a combat zone.

My father was in the US Air Force and was station overseas in the Middle East for 2 years. That was a long time ago. I know how they are feeling. I was 8 through 10 years of age.

These always get my waterworks flowing. I know what it's like to be on the deployment end but I can't imagine what it might be like for the family left behind, especially the young ones.

My own coworkers ... coming home ... by extension ... 2001-2019 Navy deploys at sea for 12 months. Other services for fewer months.

I did 7 (6) month deployments over 20 years plus the workup cycles, it's a different life for sure.

I love your whole family being together for the reactions.

My wife and I were married for most of my 17 years in the Service. At one point, I was separated from my wife for almost two years due to extended deployments overseas. We're still married, have been for 33 years.

That right there was your BEST reaction video! Very nice and very nice family....which is everything! Cheers from Chicago!

Thank you for this one. Not many can react to emotional videos. I love to watch videos with people like you. I live alone. So it’s nice to watch videos like these with someone else.

I feel so very bad for my father when he came back from Vietnam everyone would spit at him and the stupid army told him he could go home but gave him no money to get home. So he had to hitchhike all the way from the state of.Maryland to Massachusetts It took him 24 hours to get back home. He served 15 months n in Vietnam.

YES. They do have a choice. And they choice. That.We have a complete volunteer Military. William s

Whenever I want to cry these are the videos I watch

The one with the pets is priceless

United States military at least when I was in the Marine Corps we only got 15 days every year to go home and see our families so most of these people are gone a year at least sometimes two or three depending on their job

I remember coming home for the 1st time in 3 years, life changes quick

aw man these videos always bring me to tears, huge crocodile tears. the only connection i have to this is my cousin who joined the army a few years ago but its a completely different intensity of emotions compared to what all those kids and wives, and husbands feel. I applaud everyone who has served our country, is serving, and will serve. they have all my love, respect, and admiration

@lucasw24

2 ай бұрын

Can’t watch one of these without crying. My sister was deployed twice during the last war. She was always in a friendly country so the threat of death wasn’t there but it’s still tough for everyone involved when they are gone for so long. I was pretty young so I also didn’t understand that she was very safe where she was at. As a kid when you hear war you only have that one picture in your head of what war is. I still have all the letters she wrote me while she was deployed. Forever great full for what she and all other military personnel do and sacrifice.

It's very hard for the families. My husband was gone for a year to kuwait. Its even harder for younger children who dont understand why their parent had to go. My kids were scared because my husband was in dessert storm.

The little girl saying daddy--kills me. I am very close to my daddy. I am a Navy vet and so is he. The roles were reversed--I came home on leave and my mom and a cousin picked me up. They said daddy couldn't make it. I walk around a corner and I hear a voice gehind me saying--What? No hug for your oleman? I knew it was daddy! I fely just like that little 3 yr old girl.

Dang onions

I don't even have to watch these to get emotional. I have seen quite a few on videos but when I used to live near a military base you see it almost all the time.

when I was in the navy I did 3 6 month deployments and several more 2 - 3 month cruises. Now this was just after dessert storm (1st gulf war), so not wartime. But I never once got a reception like those. I would get oh, you're home, nice to see ya. How long ya home for? I do like these videos though.

hug your parents, children

These are clips from soldiers,sailors and airman coming home from combat deployments. Deployments could last from 3 -15 months long.

@thumper7047

2 ай бұрын

My first deployment (Navy) I was away for 2 years in Japan aboard the USS Midway CV-41 in Yokosuka.

@db1172

2 ай бұрын

@@thumper7047 My First deployment as combat medic with 1/87 10th Mountain Div. Was 15 months in Iraq (Counted as 2) during the surge. Also had 2, 12 month deployments in Afghanistan. Although I was a single soldier. It always bought me to tears seeing my friends reunite with their families.

So emotional, cause you never know they could come back in a body bag.

These get me every time

@eurekasquared9853

2 ай бұрын

Same

Aww, I just love Cat! I'm crying watching Cat cry watching this. 😅 I have 2 Army daughters and I'm so proud of them! It's so hard when they're away. Take care guys, Aloha!! ❤

A shout out to my home state of Utah. Go Utes!!!!

My brother In law is retired chief in us navy and he got in the night before Easter . So my sister laid Easter eggs trail and the last egg was held by my brother in law and my niece was three and jumped into his arms

Always remember, you are NOT crying. You’re just lubricating your eyes.

Im not watching this channel anymore....got me crying before work lol . great job guys.

On a tour of duty (Deployed to a combat zone); or at a Military school, and or overseas.

I still remember being four years old and waiting in the airport for my oldest brother to come back from Vietnam. I remember standing there, oblivious, as my whole family took off running to where he had appeared in the terminal. All I could do was run after them! He was my hero then and now.

This was exactly me when I laid eyes on my son the first time after he was overseas for 4 years!!! I almost couldn't stay on my feet... I was so happy and relieved!!! Also, after he graduated Marine boot camp. After not being able to communicate with my 18 year old son for 3 months!!! I literally had to just stare at him because he was unrecognizable!!!

You guys got me crying with this one!!! ❤

This is a great video .... Never had a dad growing up but I can understand way it's so special good video y'all 👍

So much easier when you’re single and without a girlfriend, wife and/or children. I didn’t see my parents or siblings for most of the four years of my active service in the Marine Corps. I was in the UK for 18 months and spent most of my infantry time deployed with my battalion. Honduras, ship/fleet training and 6 months aboard an LST in the Mediterranean. I think Naval submariners probably have it the worst- being deployed for hundreds of days often and spending most of that time submerged.

@victorwaddell6530

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for your service Brother . US Navy veteran from 1985 to 1995 . My longest deployment was to the Persian Gulf sailing on USS Antietam CG 54 with the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group .

@kevinbrown3075

2 ай бұрын

@@victorwaddell6530 Thank you for yours Brother! I was aboard the Manitowoc for six months during our Med deployment. MARG 1-86. A few of the boats involved are coral reefs now. The “manny” (USS Manitowoc) was sold to the Thai Navy in ‘95 I believe. I served (active) from ‘83-‘87.

@eurekasquared9853

2 ай бұрын

As a History Teacher i really appreciate your service! God bless you!

@kevinbrown3075

2 ай бұрын

@@eurekasquared9853 An honor.

Bravo, crying again 😅❤

I bet there is a flag flying on every one of their homes supporting their family members in war zones and serving in general

Wonderful review family!❤❤🎉🎉😂😂

If these type of videos don’t affect you in some way then your not human.

God I love this country

when u come to the states come to florida! the beaches are awesome and we have great diversity in food and tons of cool animal places too ( and rodeos and state fairs)

I RELATE I HAVE 6 VETERAN UNCLES 2 FROM KOREA 4 FROM VIETNAM

I don't know if i would surprise my kid at the finish line after they just finished a race for safety reasons but i understood the mom just wanting to catch her daughter.

Gets me every time!!!🥹🥹🥹

I wanted to give this video 1000 "likes".

Hello here from UTAH!

Please do more of these🥺🥺🥺

You guys should react to the Texas Bushman Prank! I think the family would enjoy the videos! Always makes me laugh.

I made it till 5:31 until I started crying

And sometimes it’s 2 years! 😢