A HERO’S Welcome Few people would be excited
been away from their families
about getting up at 6 a.m. on
for months. Kay first learned
a Saturday to go to the airport
about the incoming flight from
to meet a flight. But for Kay,
an announcement that ran in
their family members came
most of the returning troops had
an employee with Baylor’s
a local chamber of commerce
to the airport wearing T-shirts
to catch other flights. HTPN staff
HealthTexas Provider Network
publication, asking people
specially made to welcome
lent them cell phones to call
(HTPN), and more than 50 fellow to come greet the service
the troops back home. They
their families and tell them they
HTPN employees and their
members arriving at Dallas/Fort
handed out cold drinks, snacks
were back on U.S. soil...and
families, there was nothing else
Worth International Airport.
and hugs to the pleasantly
about the “welcome
they’d rather have been doing.
She emailed the word across
surprised passengers. And, of
home” they
Hundreds of weary troops
HTPN. The number of RSVPs she
course, they cheered.
received from
were returning home from
received was overwhelming.
Since DFW Airport is only an
members of
overseas war zones. Most had
Dozens of HTPN staff and
initial point of entry to the U.S.,
the Baylor family.
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