{"id":30438,"date":"2012-06-19T10:23:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T14:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30438"},"modified":"2012-06-19T11:09:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T15:09:23","slug":"fathers-day-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30438","title":{"rendered":"Father’s Day Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

From\u00a0Yahoo Sports\u00a0<\/a>comes the story of a returning Marine being the “surprisee” instead of the “surpriser”<\/p>\n

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We’ve seen a lot of soldiers surprising their loved ones at ballparks the last few years. And whether it’s a girlfriend<\/a>, a wife<\/a> or a family<\/a> being shocked,\u00a0each one is special in its own way.\u00a0 One of the features that unites them all, however, is that it has always been the returning veteran catching the other people off guard. That’s why what happened at Dodger Stadium on Sunday was particularly noteworthy. Instead of U.S. Marine Corporal Christopher Farias surprising his father Lawrence after a ceremonial first pitch, it was the other way around.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Farias was the Dodgers Veteran of the Day and was invited to throw out the first pitch….what he didn’t know was that the Dodgers had his father as the catcher on home plate.<\/p>\n

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According to Lawrence, it was the first time in eight years that Christopher’s military responsibilities didn’t get in the way of them being together on Father’s Day.\u00a0That’s definitely way too long but a sunny afternoon at Chavez Ravine is a heck of a way to get back on track.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out the link for the video, my web-fu is not strong and I’m not going to try and embed the video lest I mess up Jonn’s blog and stir his wrath!<\/p>\n

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UPDATE:<\/em><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>As commentor Jeff put it “that’s one decorated Marine”\u00a0 He was awarded the Navy Cross last month… Go check out the story!<\/a>\u00a0 I’m not sure how he got out of the dugout with the massive stones he has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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