Father’s Day Surprise
From Yahoo Sports comes the story of a returning Marine being the “surprisee” instead of the “surpriser”
We’ve seen a lot of soldiers surprising their loved ones at ballparks the last few years. And whether it’s a girlfriend, a wife or a family being shocked, each one is special in its own way. One of the features that unites them all, however, is that it has always been the returning veteran catching the other people off guard. That’s why what happened at Dodger Stadium on Sunday was particularly noteworthy. Instead of U.S. Marine Corporal Christopher Farias surprising his father Lawrence after a ceremonial first pitch, it was the other way around.
Farias was the Dodgers Veteran of the Day and was invited to throw out the first pitch….what he didn’t know was that the Dodgers had his father as the catcher on home plate.
According to Lawrence, it was the first time in eight years that Christopher’s military responsibilities didn’t get in the way of them being together on Father’s Day. That’s definitely way too long but a sunny afternoon at Chavez Ravine is a heck of a way to get back on track.
Check out the link for the video, my web-fu is not strong and I’m not going to try and embed the video lest I mess up Jonn’s blog and stir his wrath!
UPDATE: As commentor Jeff put it “that’s one decorated Marine” He was awarded the Navy Cross last month… Go check out the story! I’m not sure how he got out of the dugout with the massive stones he has…
Category: Marine Corps, Who knows
As much as I don’t care for the Dodgers, gotta give them kudos for setting this up. Well done, LAD.
Damn that corporal is decorated. I thought the Marine’s tattoo policy allowed only half-sleeves that stop at the elbow?
That’s a touching story, very touching, and newsworthy, too .., well, except for the loonies at MSNBC.
Really, it is nice to know that there are still selfless people like the ones who made the extraordinary efforts to put that together for that father and his son.
I haven’t met or known any people like that in recent years.
I’m glad he is on our side!
OLD TROOPER:
“. . .my web-fu is not strong . . .” —
But everything else — IS !!
As Mr. Biermann said, GLAD YOU ARE ON OUR SIDE !!
Happy Father’s Day to you, Old Trooper .
(And all the rest of you here, where applicable.)
TANKER, Argh,another error.
DR_BRETT
No worries, I’m a father, you got that one. What really gets confusing is when Old Trooper and I are commenting on the same thread and people refer to both of us as OT….He is the original OT though!
No. 7 OT
Uh-oh, I meant Over the Top !!
Seriously, I like you both .
#8
Haha! Good because I like us both! I’m hoping to get invited to one of his turkey shoots some day!!
I watched the video of the event at the MLB and thought what a great idea it was to recognize service members. When I saw the Marine I thought it was nifty, when I took a look at his rack I was astonished. Too bad the website didn’t identify what he had earned. OO RAH.
It’s not exactly cool and popular all over the place, to ADMIRE ACHIEVEMENT (unless Hollowwood so-called feats of) — more likely, cutting down achievement (THE GOOD) is considered cool and popular. Most of the entire culture of dominant ideas — must be reversed, improved massively .
(This, IMAJ — In My Arrogant Judgment)