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[Dennis143]

WELCOME HOME TSAP AND FAMILY!!!!!!!

 

 

So glad this long-awaited dream has finally come true for you, tsap. And yes, it was great to read about Screamin' Eagle and his special welcome home for you. If ever a man deserved it, it is you. I don't know you Eagle, but from the bottom of this old 91A10 Combat Medic's heart, thanks a bunch for thinkin' of cuzin' tsapper.

 

Get some rest and I'll see if I can surface that Stevie Ray post you didn't get to see while you were in China.

Is it true or is this all just a dream... Tsap and family are here just the same as the two Chawl's families are? The long agonizing chapter is closed and a new one is to begin? (Tsap thought the long wait was the grueling part, boy does he have a rude awakening coming. :snicker: :snicker: ) JK

That was a real awesome gesture by you and your family, Richard. And Richard, your post about their adjusting to their new life was/is very important. Our, American adjusted, wives are also standing at the ready to give support if needed.

[Ryan H]

Tsap, Welcome home!!

 

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[screamneagle]

WELCOME HOME TSAP AND FAMILY!!!!!!!

 

 

So glad this long-awaited dream has finally come true for you, tsap. And yes, it was great to read about Screamin' Eagle and his special welcome home for you. If ever a man deserved it, it is you. I don't know you Eagle, but from the bottom of this old 91A10 Combat Medic's heart, thanks a bunch for thinkin' of cuzin' tsapper.

 

Get some rest and I'll see if I can surface that Stevie Ray post you didn't get to see while you were in China.

 

 

Hey Mick:

 

I appreciate your kind words and thoughtfulness in posting them. As I told Tsaper, it was our pleasure to try to provide something very special for him and his family upon their initial arrival home upon American soil. As a vet and after all that he has gone through in his life, I felt the call to reach out to him and do what little I could to welcome him and his beautiful family home. He sure as hell didn't get it 40 years ago. In addition, I was very moved by Tsap,s past post about his encountered with that immigration official Alpha Hotel turd and all his insulting remarks and innuendos to a guy who was just trying to find peace and happiness in his life ... a guy who was, and remains as sincere as hell ... a guy who was just playing THEIR stupid "red tape" game and doing all he could to find his personal piece and happiness ... and an guy who deserves to be respected because of the sacrifice he made in placing his life in harm's way to give this punk the right to insult him the way he did. You just don't do that to a veteran who has served his country faithfully and hororably ... who has survived the ordeal of combat service in South East Asia ... even if it was 40 years ago. I understand this customs guy had no way of knowing any of this about Tsap ... but Tsap deserved respect as an ordinary citizen in any event ("ordinary" ... hell ... we all know he is something special and if you ever have the privileged of meeting him you will know that "special" is an understatement!) OK ... so we're older. We're gray haired. We're a little slower. We're sometimes not as sharp as we used to be but ... damn ... that is no reason for disrespect by anyone ... and especially by a government official whose salary we pay! It goes beyond unacceptable ... and is in my eyes ... unforgivable.

 

I don't know if any of you gentlemen here have had the pleasure of being in an airport when one of the "Liberty Bird" airplanes arrive at the terminal and the World War II veterans deplane and are escorted through the terminal with an honor guard. I just happen to catch one of these last year. I was in Reagan National Airport here in Washington, DC waiting to catch a flight up to New York to make a connecting flight with Air China to Beijing when I noticed a commotion and heard a lot of applause and cheering a few waiting areas away from the one in which I was waiting. When I went over to see what was going on I saw a sea of people extending down both sides of an open isle through which frail, old and feeble men were being wheeled in their wheel chairs in an endless line ... coming through the arrival gate and being pushed from behind by a younger person wearing a "Freedom Bird" tee shirt and ball cap. Each wheel chair had a small American flag flying over it and each vet had a ball cap on with things on the front such as, "World War II Veteran", "Iwo Jima Veteran", "Battle of the Bulge Veteran", "5th Marine Veteran", "8th Air Force Veteran", "1st Division Veteran" etc. Some of these veterans were walking slowly next to their wheel chairs ... still too proud to have to depend on anyone for anything ... but all waving to the crown and acknowledging the special attention they were receiving ... and most of them with tears in their eyes. I asked a person who was obviously an event official what was going on and she told me that this was a special flight ... one of many ... for World War II veterans to bring them to Washington, DC to see their new World War II Memorial. She told me that that the flight and all accommodations were provided free of charge to each veteran and to members of their families. These men were in their upper 80's and 90's and wanted to see THEIR memorial before they passed on. It was so very moving to see the appreciation that these men were still receiving from old and young alike ... even after all these years. My friend, THAT is respect! Well deserved respect!! It is that same type of respect that Tsap should have received from that customs dork in New Jersey... the same type of "Welcome Home" he should have received and did not get upon his arrival home. So ... welcoming him home the way he should have been welcomed home was just our way of saying THANK YOU to a fellow vet who I knew would appreciate and understand our gesture. And as I said ... it was our true and sincere pleasure to do so.

 

Mick, I don't know you but I will tell you this ... I hold ... and will forever hold all you combat medics, corpsman and nurses in a very special, deep and private place in my heart. You guys were the BEST of the best. You want to talk about courage and heroism under fire ... you guys were it ... a very special breed indeed! Thank you then ... and thank you now, Mick! Lest we forget!

[LeeFisher3]

Well tsapper.....I figure you is on U.S. soil by now. Hope you surface soon. I know the two of you are tired, but take that snorkel off for a few minutes, take your meds, and say hello to all us bozos on this here bus. B)

 

 

We made it to Dulles airport last night around 7:30 pm. Went through customs (no more problems for me at all this time) and went through immigration. Wenyan and Fengqi got their IR-1/2 visas stamped and got told to wait a month or two to get their 10 year green cards in the mail but that they oculd travel now it they want to. THey also got told, "Welcome to America".

 

Everything went smoothly and I was with them both every step of the way through everything.

Daymmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I take a nap and everything changes.

 

It was a long path you took, but you made it.

 

Congratualations old friend

[tsap seui]

Well tsapper.....I figure you is on U.S. soil by now. Hope you surface soon. I know the two of you are tired, but take that snorkel off for a few minutes, take your meds, and say hello to all us bozos on this here bus. B)

 

 

We made it to Dulles airport last night around 7:30 pm. Went through customs (no more problems for me at all this time) and went through immigration. Wenyan and Fengqi got their IR-1/2 visas stamped and got told to wait a month or two to get their 10 year green cards in the mail but that they oculd travel now it they want to. THey also got told, "Welcome to America".

 

Everything went smoothly and I was with them both every step of the way through everything.

Daymmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I take a nap and everything changes.

 

It was a long path you took, but you made it.

 

Congratualations old friend

 

Thanks Lee. Yep, great to see lil' rabbit and son pass the "audition". And I'm thankful for having our freedom now. Ya never know how dear freedom is, until, ya lose it.

 

Hope all is well with you and family. You were always a guiding post to me during this war with the State Department.

 

To all, my time is pretty limited on the internet just now....too dang busy and happy with my lil' family. Got lots to say but need some more time to say it. We've looking for a small house to buy here in the mountains and got locked in at a 4.25% interest rate for 60 days. Went to the school yesterday for Fengqi, the principle and guidance counselors were highly impressed with his grades, but with 615 students in the whole 9th 10th 11th and 12th grades combined, they are scrambling to find help for him with english....the ball is in their court and we should find out Friday if the principle found what he's looking for with a Chinese student on his hands out of the blue. This is redneck white boy country here. Rest assured, I am looking for and and everyway in the world I can help this kid get on track with his education.

 

We are having a ball as a family together so far, life is DAMN good. They both love America.

 

I'll post some more in time, down in my pack of heathens becoming a family thread.

 

Thanks again to everyone for their help and feelings of goodwill to us.

 

tsap seui

 

Freedom.....what a beautiful feeling, word, and way of life

[Henry and Mei]

AMEN!!!

 

And I remember Lee giving me help along the way also. Thanks, Lee.

Tsap you have come too far to stop giving us your golden nuggets and feelings for your lil rabbit. So toss us a bone from time to time.

 

So good luck to you from one farm boy to one redneck hillbilly, and yes, I have hillbilly friends here that migrated to South Texas. But thrrr a changin on me, even movd da couch off the frent perch. Now I gotta pull old Betsy along dar curb if them young'ins urnt playin outside ta see if theyed b home

[tsap seui]

AMEN!!!

 

And I remember Lee giving me help along the way also. Thanks, Lee.

Tsap you have come too far to stop giving us your golden nuggets and feelings for your lil rabbit. So toss us a bone from time to time.

 

So good luck to you from one farm boy to one redneck hillbilly, and yes, I have hillbilly friends here that migrated to South Texas. But thrrr a changin on me, even movd da couch off the frent perch. Now I gotta pull old Betsy along dar curb if them young'ins urnt playin outside ta see if theyed b home

 

Thanks again Henry. It's a great family we have here on Candle. I consider myself very fortunate to be a part of it and I am very happy you are here and posting again.

 

tsap seui

[Mick]

WELCOME HOME TSAP AND FAMILY!!!!!!!

 

 

So glad this long-awaited dream has finally come true for you, tsap. And yes, it was great to read about Screamin' Eagle and his special welcome home for you. If ever a man deserved it, it is you. I don't know you Eagle, but from the bottom of this old 91A10 Combat Medic's heart, thanks a bunch for thinkin' of cuzin' tsapper.

 

Get some rest and I'll see if I can surface that Stevie Ray post you didn't get to see while you were in China.

 

 

Hey Mick:

 

I appreciate your kind words and thoughtfulness in posting them. As I told Tsaper, it was our pleasure to try to provide something very special for him and his family upon their initial arrival home upon American soil. As a vet and after all that he has gone through in his life, I felt the call to reach out to him and do what little I could to welcome him and his beautiful family home. He sure as hell didn't get it 40 years ago. In addition, I was very moved by Tsap,s past post about his encountered with that immigration official Alpha Hotel turd and all his insulting remarks and innuendos to a guy who was just trying to find peace and happiness in his life ... a guy who was, and remains as sincere as hell ... a guy who was just playing THEIR stupid "red tape" game and doing all he could to find his personal piece and happiness ... and an guy who deserves to be respected because of the sacrifice he made in placing his life in harm's way to give this punk the right to insult him the way he did. You just don't do that to a veteran who has served his country faithfully and hororably ... who has survived the ordeal of combat service in South East Asia ... even if it was 40 years ago. I understand this customs guy had no way of knowing any of this about Tsap ... but Tsap deserved respect as an ordinary citizen in any event ("ordinary" ... hell ... we all know he is something special and if you ever have the privileged of meeting him you will know that "special" is an understatement!) OK ... so we're older. We're gray haired. We're a little slower. We're sometimes not as sharp as we used to be but ... damn ... that is no reason for disrespect by anyone ... and especially by a government official whose salary we pay! It goes beyond unacceptable ... and is in my eyes ... unforgivable.

 

I don't know if any of you gentlemen here have had the pleasure of being in an airport when one of the "Liberty Bird" airplanes arrive at the terminal and the World War II veterans deplane and are escorted through the terminal with an honor guard. I just happen to catch one of these last year. I was in Reagan National Airport here in Washington, DC waiting to catch a flight up to New York to make a connecting flight with Air China to Beijing when I noticed a commotion and heard a lot of applause and cheering a few waiting areas away from the one in which I was waiting. When I went over to see what was going on I saw a sea of people extending down both sides of an open isle through which frail, old and feeble men were being wheeled in their wheel chairs in an endless line ... coming through the arrival gate and being pushed from behind by a younger person wearing a "Freedom Bird" tee shirt and ball cap. Each wheel chair had a small American flag flying over it and each vet had a ball cap on with things on the front such as, "World War II Veteran", "Iwo Jima Veteran", "Battle of the Bulge Veteran", "5th Marine Veteran", "8th Air Force Veteran", "1st Division Veteran" etc. Some of these veterans were walking slowly next to their wheel chairs ... still too proud to have to depend on anyone for anything ... but all waving to the crown and acknowledging the special attention they were receiving ... and most of them with tears in their eyes. I asked a person who was obviously an event official what was going on and she told me that this was a special flight ... one of many ... for World War II veterans to bring them to Washington, DC to see their new World War II Memorial. She told me that that the flight and all accommodations were provided free of charge to each veteran and to members of their families. These men were in their upper 80's and 90's and wanted to see THEIR memorial before they passed on. It was so very moving to see the appreciation that these men were still receiving from old and young alike ... even after all these years. My friend, THAT is respect! Well deserved respect!! It is that same type of respect that Tsap should have received from that customs dork in New Jersey... the same type of "Welcome Home" he should have received and did not get upon his arrival home. So ... welcoming him home the way he should have been welcomed home was just our way of saying THANK YOU to a fellow vet who I knew would appreciate and understand our gesture. And as I said ... it was our true and sincere pleasure to do so.

 

Mick, I don't know you but I will tell you this ... I hold ... and will forever hold all you combat medics, corpsman and nurses in a very special, deep and private place in my heart. You guys were the BEST of the best. You want to talk about courage and heroism under fire ... you guys were it ... a very special breed indeed! Thank you then ... and thank you now, Mick! Lest we forget!

Thanks for the kind words, Eagle - they mean so much to me and all who served. You mentioned the WW II Vets. Two years ago, I had the honor of writing a story on the Honor Flights and helped foot the bill for my Dad to go to DC (He is 91 now) on a Flight from Sarasota, Florida. My Dad was a medic (drove an ambulance) and hit Omaha Beach on Day Three of the Normandy Invasion. He laid a brick in his pants when his only son wound up as a medic as well. Again, I appreciate what you did for Tsap. He surely deserved it.