Nothing was sweeter for these families than their husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters arriving home from deployment just in time for the holidays. Most of the 170 + soldiers that arrived home on a plane late on Monday night were men, but a few women walked through the line and were greeted by family and friends. With a homecoming that was supposed to be in the morning, the anxious and dreary family members were forced to wait longer as the plane was unable to land in time because of the fog. The plane finally made it in just after sunset, and by the time these families hugged their favorite soldier, time no longer mattered.
Every picture (except the very last) was published in the Hurlburt Warrior and the 2nd and 4th were published in the Daily paper.
This one was in the morning before the crowd was told that the plane would not arrive till later that night. This boy was peeking through the barricade and out onto the runway:
While I was editing the homecoming pictures for the Warrior on Tuesday, a fire was spotted at a home in Valparaiso. I took off from the office, but the 15 minute drive was too long so by the time the writer and I got there (in different cars) the fire was extinguished already. Since there wasn't much to work with, I photographed the scene with the house in the background and the fire trucks lining the street:
God knows how much I love football, especially taking pictures of it, and seems to keep finding me another game to shoot even though the season is over. Last week I got to shoot the Niceville semi-final game and now this week I got to shoot the Pensacola Sports Association High School All-Star game at Fort Walton Beach High. The "East" and "West" divisions play each other after the season is over, and the East division was the side I was to cover. The East schools consisted of Fort Walton, Choctaw, Crestview, Baker, Pace (which should have been a West school but wasn't) and Navarre. There may have been more but those were the helmets I saw. Here is the picture that ran in print:
The East side did win the game 15-8 on one of the coldest nights that I have felt in quite awhile.
This guy was certainly feeling the strong, freezing wind during the first half of the game:
That is all for now. Next update will be after Christmas so I will say it now...Merry Christmas!!!!
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