What a most beautiful, "Welcome Home", to her dear brother. This sent chills all over me.

Oh and by the way, I love your light house picture on your blog. I always dreamed of living by one or living in one all remodled inside real comfy.

It gives me a lump in my throat every time I look at it. I have a companion photo I may post soon...

Love the jacket- that's the original motorcycle jacket- snap at the top, one zippered pocket. I still have mine from 1973, but it seems to have shrunk.

At first, the resemblance of the picture(top of page) to the colors of the flag was the flag referred to in the link from Dean. However, the picture of Elizabeth is great and inspiring.

Thank you all for your wonderful comments and true interest in my emotions when David came home. I will never forget seeing him come off the train. I can't believe the response that these photo's have gotten..they seem to be cropping up all over the place.
Thank you all so much....

PS. to the guy who recognized my jacket....very cool...thanks

Thank your brother dear sweet hot girl...

Elizabeth, I want you to thank your brother too and please give him a big hug from me. You are such a beautiful lady with a real tender heart and obviously you love America, and what She stands for! Thank you both and God Bless YOU BOTH!!!

That picture should be in every magazine and blog and newspaper around the world.

The greatest picture is one of our troops arriving home to their families after a job well done.

Elizabeth, please tell your brother and his soldiers thank you. We do appreciate everything they have done for America.

Elizabeth,

I'm one of the regular commenters on Dean's World, one of the big blogsites. Like Janelle, I too want to thank you personally for greeting your brother with that big beautiful flag in your hands, upon his return from Iraq with 14 months active duty under his belt.

I served in the US Army at the tail end of the Korean war and came home 49 years ago. (Nothing glamorous in my case; just two years at a couple of big stateside training bases.) But I arrived home at a train station in Chicago the same as your brother has done in your part of the USA, and I too had a sister there to greet me.

But even for our people who had fought the North Koreans and Chinese, none were greeted with Old Glory in those years, and we just passed it out of our minds at the time, to think about later. (The parades with flags and all had more or less ended with those organized for our troops returning from Europe and the Pacific after World War II.)

In any case, thank your brother the reserve major for all of us. We know Iraq is a tough show, and may not get any easier for a long time. But we also know that America's freedom from islamofascist terrorism is being fought for in that country, amid sometimes terrible conditions for the Americans and our allies who face death every day they walk the streets of their urban hellholes.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

To heck with it. I wound up re-posting Elizabeth's beautiful picture here.

Wow. What a beautiful picture. Thanks for posting it, and Elizabeth, thank you for being the catalyst for it.