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LITTLE FALLS, Minn. Cooper Waldvogel loves his mom more than militaryprotocol.
The 3-year-old boy could not wait for his mom to be dismissed after serving nine months in Afghanistan with the National Guard's 114th Transportation Company based in Chisholm, Minn.
He ran to her Tuesday morning while she and her fellow soldiers stood in line waiting to be dismissed.
"I was longing to hold him, that's all that I thought about," said his mother, Kathryn Waldvogel, 25.
Her first sergeant told her and the other soldiers they would file in to the auditorium and would be dismissed shortly. But they were not to say hello to family members because it would take too long.
Cooper took care of that, running to his mother's arms.
"He just kept smiling like he was in awe of me," she said.
A KARE-TV photographer captured the moment and the station posted to Facebook. The responses have been overwhelmingly positive.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/09/17/toddler-ignores-military-protocol-hugs-mom/15759527/
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,297 posts)And the look of love and joy on his mom's face just says it all.
Uncle Joe
(58,111 posts)Thanks for the thread, Purveyor.
JI7
(89,173 posts)rpannier
(24,304 posts)Where's the security?? He could have been a terrorist!!!
They're coming over the border through Mexico.
I saw a headline about a Texas sheriff who said he found a Qaran.
:/ sarcasm
Now that I've released my inner right winger
Cute pic
Thanks for sharing
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)We only have the "moms" word she is the mother. That kid could easily be an ISIS operative laced with Ebola from Bengazi.
20 years hard time will teach em.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)This is family and love and life. Good for the boy.
Nothing rises above the love between Mother and child. Nothing. Thanks, Purveyor.