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Thank you for your interest in the Welcome Home a Hero program for our Troops.
Welcome Home a Hero is a program started to encourage and support our deployed military. Anywhere from 150 - 275 Troops come through DFW airport each day (7 days a week, 365 days a year) on their way home for a two-week R&R (Rest and Recuperation). One flight a day arrives at DFW and one goes back each day. A small portion meets their families here but the majority will catch connecting flights home. Volunteers gather each day to be there to welcome these Troops off their flight, thanking and encouraging them for their service to our great nation. The majority of the Troops are coming from Afghanistan and Iraq.
All are welcome to come and participate in Welcome Home a Hero. To learn of flight arrivals, call this recorded message 972.574.0392 after 8 p.m. at night. It will inform you of the arrival time. ** At this time, the flights are scheduled to arrive around 8:00 a.m. each day.. The Military does their best to keep us informed. You will want to check the recording several times in the morning before coming to the airport. Presently, the Troops arrive at Terminal D, door 22 (International Arrivals). You will not be going through security! You will park directly across from the entrance in two hour parking and Parking Passes will be issued as you enter. If you use your toll tag at the booth, the vouchers WILL NOT work, so please get a ticket. Vouchers are issued for each driver.
Flight times and arrival gates on the hotline are more updated and accurate than this email. Please call before coming and go by the hotline information. 972.574.0392
While our Troops are thrilled you are here to show your support, many of them are very battle weary. Some have been on foot patrols in cities where the threat of suicide bombers is ongoing and for them walking into the warm welcome that DFW community provides can be intimidating and or threatening for them. This may be their first time to back in a group of people since their last mission. With this in mind, we ask you to be respectful of their needs. Shake their hand, cheer, tell them thank you but please refrain from hugging them. Let them be the initiators of that! Be aware of those who, for what ever reason don't want to make eye contact or shake hands or anything. Please let them pass freely. We never make judgments about their responses, because we never know where they have been, what they have seen.
Please feel free to contact me with any other questions you may have:
Thank You for Supporting Our Troops!
Donna - donna@welcomehomeahero.com
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Joe -
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