New Castle Resident Mark Hedrick, US Army, Is Coming Home from Iraq Today

And Warriors’ Watch will be meeting him at the airport to give him an escort home.

Welcome Home rides are the best. You just feel so happy not just for the service man or woman returning from duty, but their family as well. I don’t always get to meet these returnees personally. Sometimes we forget that they are not only serving our country, but they are also a regular 22-year-old kid who sometimes likes to goof around like the rest of us.

Here’s a video from Mark’s MySpace page to remind us of that very thing:
Hedrick doing his thang


Heh, maybe I’ll get a chance to do a little moonwalk with him when he gets off the plane, but probably not as he’ll be surrounded by friends and family to be sure.

And speaking of Warriors’ Watch, founder Wayne Lutz recently reported on an event to honor the men and women of the Philadelphia Airport Police Department. They help us make sure all of these events go smoothly:

Without the cooperation and aid of the police there, our work would be much more difficult if not downright impossible. We ride in to the airport and the PD there treats us like VIPs, or I should actually say that they treat our TROOPS like VIPs. They know what we are doing there, and they themselves have such appreciation for our troops that helping us in our mission seems just natural to them. So they treat us well, and we wanted to give back a little.

Welcome home, Mark ! See you in a few hours…..