{"id":386,"date":"2005-06-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/article\/thanks-nobody-was-a-stranger-at-operation-homecoming"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"thanks-nobody-was-a-stranger-at-operation-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, nobody was a stranger at Operation Homecoming."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>As a wife of a Vietnam Veteran of the 101st 3\/506 LRRPS, I want to send my  thanks to the city of Branson and <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:City w:st=\"on\">Operation Welcome Home <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">USA.  The most wonderful thing about the whole week was NOBODY WAS A STRANGER! Airforce, Marines, Navy, Coast Guard, Army &#8211;one big happy family.  <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3> <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>Words can&#8217;t describe the emotions of this great week.  Buddies were found and reunited, wives got a glimpse of their husband&#8217;s past, stories were told, memories rekindled&#8230;..Each day was fabulous and the next day was even better&#8230;<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3> <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>Thanks to everyone who volunteered and helped plan and support this wonderful event!   We salute you!<\/FONT><\/P><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">Mrs. Jerry &#8230;.  <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:City w:st=\"on\">Sandy, <st1:State w:st=\"on\">Oregon <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words can&#8217;t describe the emotions of this great week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editor-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}