I’ve seen many a homecoming for deployed US military over the years but never one quite like this:

Sgt. Tyson Two Two stood on a war blanket provided by his family, a traditional Northern Cheyenne Tribe war bonnet perfectly complementing his dress blues, as drummers and singers welcomed him home.

Saturday afternoon in the baggage claim lobby of Billings Logan International Airport, Two Two, 24, a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps and member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, was welcomed home from a seven-month tour in Iraq by about 50 family members and friends from the Northern Cheyenne reservation.

Welcome home Sergeant..well done!

There are many, many terific pictures at the link as well as the balance of the story. HT: Gateway Pundit

Look no further than this video to see what the Olympic Games and acupuncture have in common.

Please take a moment to visit Wide Awake Cafe where Mrs. Donoho has allowed us to share in the homecoming of her son.

While there take a moment to scroll through the pictures where you will find one of the young son of this brave soldier alone with his flag.

Priceless, absolutely, priceless.

Thanks for including us in this wonderful family moment.

Remember not too many years ago when Uday Hussein would kill members of national Iraqi teams who didn’t win? He was in charge of the Olympics but I’m sure he was in charge of other things too.

Well, today the Iraqi soccer team defeated the Saudi team to win the Asian Cup for soccer, and instead of killing people there was a sense of national pride.

Iraq erupted in joy and celebratory gunfire on Sunday when the country’s national football squad won the Asian Cup and united its bitterly divided communities in a rare moment of celebration.
Thousands of Iraqis, including members of the security forces, defied a strict government ceasefire order to welcome the team’s 1-0 victory over local rivals Saudi Arabia with an intense barrage of gunfire.

Soldiers, police and civilian gunmen loosed off long volleys of automatic fire skywards and into the waters of the Tigris within seconds of the final whistle in Jakarta, beamed live to cafes and homes across the country.

The Iraqi victory against the three-time Asian Cup champions was a precious moment of shared national joy in a country beset by civil strife.

“Now it is our right to enjoy this victory that our heroic team has brought to us. They have brought us joy that we never experienced in the past, when we suffered greatly,” said Haidar Mustafa, a Baghdad student.

Around him in a downtown coffee shop, dozens of fans leapt and sang with joy after seeing skipper Younis Mahmoud’s powerful header seal a first Asian Cup victory for his mixed team of Sunni Arabs, Shiite Arabs and Kurds.

From the southern Shiite port city of Basra, to executed Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein’s northern hometown of Tikrit and even to Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region, flag-waving crowds celebrated.

What a difference the deaths of those thugs has meant, and for the first time, we are seeing national unity and not just sectarian unity.

Maybe there’s some hope for the Iraqi people after all.