True Loyalty.....

[caliguy]

Sorry if this off topic, Wrong place.. but this is called true Loyalty!
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...175219915.html

[Sir Nuke]

I saw this earlier.....it brought a tears to my eyes.

[caliguy]

Thanks for adding the vid clip, i always keep forgetting how to lol

[Needs Exhaust!]

Take a look at this...

[shockandawe]

That is incredible.

[rjdapilmoto]

Originally Posted by Needs Exhaust!

Take a look at this...

Thanks for sharing this...it was very touching and made me cry..

[Needs Exhaust!]

Originally Posted by rjdapilmoto

Thanks for sharing this...it was very touching and made me cry..

I'm somebody who has learned how to tune emotion out of their life at will because of my future profession and this made me tear up as well.

This one will really get you since you have a daughter I believe. Things like this truly show how much is sacrificed for this country and the appreciation that needs to be shown towards our troops.

Some things are just not allowed when soldiers are standing in formation. One of them is 4-year-old girls.

However, there was no soldier stern enough to pry Paige Bennethum of Laureldale, Pa. from her father as he prepared to leave last July for a year-long deployment in Iraq.

Abby Bennethum captured her daughter's emotions in a photograph that she passed along to the Reading Eagle, the newspaper in Berks County, Pa. The image immediately captured many other people's emotions.

Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Brett Bennethum was preparing to depart from Fort Dix, N.J., for Iraq, leaving behind his pregnant wife and two little girls. His family was there to see him off. His commanding officer didn't have the heart to tell Paige she had to let go of her daddy.

"I didn't want to let go of him," she told NBC Philadelphia.

Sgt. Bennethum, 30, is scheduled to return home next July. Until then, he's transporting supplies across the Iraqi border. He serves with the 733rd Transportation Company based in Reading, Pa.

Abby Bennethum said she got pregnant right before her husband left for Iraq. "I've heard of deployment babies, but I never thought I'd be having one," she told the Reading Eagle. The couple's other daughter, Lena, is just 10 months old.

Staff Sgt. Bennethum got a four-day pass so he could spend some quality time with his family and they could make the two-hour trip to Fort Dix to see him off. Almost immediately upon arrival, his commanding officer ordered the soldiers to fall in.

"Gotta go," he told his family. But Paige walked up behind him in formation, grabbed his right hand and would not let go.

"I called her a couple of times, but she wouldn't budge," her mother said. She still wishes she was holding her father's hand.

"I just miss my dad right now," Paige told NBC.

[5thGenOwner]

This is indeed, a truely touching testament of the bond between a good man and his best friend.

I don't know a soul that could hear this story and not tear up; then thank every man & woman in uniform for keeping us free and safe.

[Scorpion6]

Originally Posted by Needs Exhaust!

I'm somebody who has learned how to tune emotion out of their life at will because of my future profession and this made me tear up as well.

Don't be so sure of this. And if you truly can, you may regret it later on in life. A little background; I had the Honor to be selected for special assignment while I was in the Air Force to the United States Air Force Honor Guard. http://www.honorguard.af.mil/ Part of our duty was to provide military funerals at Arlington on a daily basis. We were taught "military bearing" in short, no emotion, no facial expression and every movement was to be deliberate and precise.
Now, I have always been in public safety, either as a Cop, EMT or Emergency Management. I lived in NJ from 2000-2005 and responded to the World Trade Center and was on site just prior to the first tower coming down.
In short, all those emotions that I thought I could shut off; from what I was taught in the Military, seeing funeral after funeral, working as a Cop or EMT seeing every kind of accident and death there is, turns out they are not shut off, just repressed and sooner or later they will show up.
I don't know what your "future profession" is going to be, but just make sure you have some sort of vent to deal with emotions, it will make them easier to deal with rather then waiting until later.

Sorry, that's my ramble....

[PB3]

Y'all suck!
Seeing and reading these articles always get's the best of me.
Reminds me of how fortunate I am to have what I have and how brave the men,women, and their families are that give us their world so we can live in ours.

Thanks to the past a present service men and women for everything.

[toesuf94]

The dog one absolutely kills me. I cried...I admit it.

[BackinBlackSS/RS]

OMG I saw this. What a heart warming story. It made me SO happy and sad at the same time.

[Nessal]

I have so many things to say about this but don't even know where to begin.

I have owned many dogs in my life. I actually have 2 right now. They truly are man's BEST FRIEND. We had one go a few months back. It's like losing your own child. I still have him as my background pictures on my computer at work.

To be honest with you, I respect dogs more than I respect most humans. It's truly the only animal that will love you UNCONDITIONALLY.

[Scorpion6]

Originally Posted by Nessal

I have so many things to say about this but don't even know where to begin.

I have owned many dogs in my life. I actually have 2 right now. They truly are man's BEST FRIEND. We had one go a few months back. It's like losing your own child. I still have him as my background pictures on my computer at work.

To be honest with you, I respect dogs more than I respect most humans. It's truly the only animal that will love you UNCONDITIONALLY.

It's sad, but I tend to find that comment true as well. My Siberian Husky knows when there is something wrong before I do most of the time. LOL