Welcome Home Sgt Ian Keyser

Photo by the uber talented Sean Carpenter. Click HERE to view more photos of Ian’s Welcome Home.

Ian Keyser arrived home in the early hours of August 15th – around 1:30 in the morning – at Philadelphia’s 30th street station. Plane delays in NYC had Ian catching a train for the final leg of his journey home. Ian was welcomed home by his wife, Sharon Hyland-Keyser, and numerous family and friends who waited patiently for him to arrive.

Sharon, a newly minted 2 Lt in the U.S. Marine Corp and founder of A hero’s Welcome was overjoyed to welcome her husband home from a 15 month deployment in Afghanistan.

Welcome home, Ian Keyser!

After Berkeley

After the rare yet honest display of open hostility towards the Marines by representatives of Code Pink and Veterans For Peace.

I present you with a clip from a panel discussion I attended at CPAC. The speaker is SSG David Bellavia and he is describing the importance of Iraq and Afghanistan to him and his three fellow panelists.

There is no pithy commentary that can improve upon David’s statements: