New Zealand Girl Reacts to US SOLDIERS COMING HOME 🥺🙏🏼🇺🇸 

Family members get that reaction because when their loved ones leave for a theater of combat, they mentally prepare for their loved ones to never make it home.

As a 51 year old man, I bawl my eyes out almost every time. Shhh, don't tell anyone.😉

I'm not crying you're crying.... Another great video.

My son has been in the Army for 16 years now. I cry when he leaves and cry when he comes home. It is true what they say. The whole family serves when someone joins the military.

These make me cry. But thinking about how many military families who don’t get this luxury make me sob 😭

I'm a Marine Corps mother my son spent 13 years in the Marine Corps and he did three tours and now he's a deputy sheriff and you know I am sitting here crying like a baby because I remember him coming home been crying and crying and crying and then crying for the ones that did not come home but thank you for sharing this God bless you

Land of the free, because of the brave.

I'm currently stationed in Germany and haven't seen my mom in 8 months and wont be able to for probably for another 6 more months and I cant wait to suprise my mom she even had to miss my Boot camp graduation and coining ceremony because of the virus

The US Coast Guard has a saying: "You have to go out. You don't have to come back." That applies to deploying to a combat zone like Afghanistan or Iraq, so it's not just their families being happy to see them.

As a veteran I saw stuff like this all the time. Not the surprise, but the joy of seeing a missing loved one. See, after you come back from a deployment you have a massive parade and tons of family come and see you. This is, of course, after a long and tiring plane ride. Little kids break free from their mommies and run to daddy all the time. Quite touching and sweet.

As someone who remembers being in one of these reunions as a four-year-old in 1969, I think this is all that we Americans want you to know about us. This video pretty much says it all.

i grew up what is termed an Army Brat. My dad served in Korean War in the Navy *b4 he and my mom even met* and in the Army and Served in the Vietnam War in country. Back then being a Soldier or a dependent of a soldier was not a goo thing. Not only did we move every 2 years or less. Once people found out we were military most ignored us and were very rude. And in school the kids, most of them wanted to start fights, pull knives on me, surround me as a gang and start a fight. It was not much better for my mom. And dad well they spit on him and called him baby killer when he came home from Nam. Now it seem like about half of the people really honor Vets and those serving and the other half, well some will act like they are honoring but in a back handed way. I am very proud my dad served. Out of his five boys 4 of them served. And half of his grand kids have or are serving.

I've got to experience coming home as a single soldier and coming home as a husband and dad. Seeing the excitement and emotion on your kids faces turns you into an emotional wreck so quick. The key is to try to maintain the feeling of reuniting because after a few days it starts to present challenges. Your family has gotten used to your absence and has adapted. It's so easy for us to go back into the mode we were in before we left, but we cannot expect them to. It's a slow process getting everyone used to you being around again and requires patience and understanding.

Hi Courtney. I believe the young marine and the girl in the wedding dress were brother and sister. She was bummed because he wasn't going to be able to get home for the wedding. My older brother was a 30 year navy guy, and a bunch of those years (including 2 tours in Viet Nam) as a Seal. Hard on a family, but somehow brings them so close. Love your reactions. Have left some suggestions in comments and on your request site. Hope to see them one day, but not complaining. I'll be watching either way. Stay safe and well.

I know it's nonsensical trying to understand patriotism when so many countries are so torn apart (you Kiwis are better off than most) but this is why people in America are so patriotic. No one wants to see their kids or loved ones go off to fight another persons war. So just seeing these people come home safe and sound is a magic in and of it's self.

Hey Courtney check out Soldiers coming home to pets.

I’m actually about to enlist in the US navy, so it’s funny that this came in my recommended. there’s nothing quite like watching someone come home. It always makes me cry

Don’t feel bad Courtney, these always make me sob. But the soldiers coming home to their dogs usually get me even more emotional.

I cry to these everytime too. Been on both sides. Me surprising people, me getting surprised, and just normal home comings.

Love your reaction to this, being a veteran myself it still pulls on the heart strings. Would like to see more of these reactions.

I love these(I be full of tears)...my son came home from the Air Force and surprised his mother and it was AMAZING❤❤

I usually never cry in these kinds of compilations until I saw one where a Mexican family’s son came home and his mom was screaming and thanking god in spanish the same way my ma does 😭

I love it when troops come home and surprise there love one.👍👍👍

Courtney, this is the heart and soul of patriotism. Regardless of your nationality, the sacrifice of military personnel is the same around the world. Their life is a blank check for their country's government, with the understanding that they're serving a cause greater than themselves. For their families - for them to be able to return home is perhaps the greatest blessing of all.

Sacrifice is right! We need never to forget this!

For the people who cry at this need to realize that you should have tears of joy! It’s Not sad when they come home. It’s sad when they DON’T come home...

Whomever put a thumbs down on this SHAME ON YOU

I love these... they’re happy tears. The one that is really hard for me is the Memorial Day compilation. A bagpipe plays Amazing Grace and there are scenes of families at the funeral. Oh God, it’s so sad.

damn onion cutting ninjas get me every time, especially since I had no one when I got home from my tours

Just want to say, love the channel, love the content, and your respect for John Chapman has made me a lifelong sub.

My daughter just graduated from Air Force bootcamp and the graduation ceremony was incredible. When I tapped her out, our embrace was the most intensely happy we'd ever been. I wish every family could experience that moment.

How could someone dislike this

All of the worries the family members go through. All of the prayers that are prayed every day for their loved ones. When the military soldiers come home to surprise their loved ones with their return, their emotional tears represent so much sacrifice, loneliness, and the days, months, and years of separation which are required. They all miss out on so much: Milestone birthdays, proms, graduations, weddings, deaths, births, first steps, first words, the loss of their child's first baby tooth, recitals, sports games, holidays, etc. All of this so that we can remain FREE!! God bless America!

When I came home, between the end of Viet Nam and the election of Reagan, no one greeted me. I rode the bus 18 hours from my last duty station to the nearest bus station and waited for four hours outside the closed depot for family to come pick me up.

People don't have a clue how this feels unless you have lived it. I remember when my father came home from Vietnam, very emotional day for me and my brother's and sister.. I also remember my son leaving and returning from Afghanistan. I am not ashamed of crying like a baby. Please support our troops,we owe them so much. Be proud to be an American. God Bless everyone and thank a soldier when ever you get the chance.

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Thank you Courtney! Even as a 20 year veteran of the US Navy, and having never experienced homecomings like these, this video brought me to tears. God Bless you!

Living in a small Navy town, I get to see the community come together in support of squadrons that return from overseas duty on a regular basis. I haven't become tired of it yet...

My friend dad is in the military and his dad surprised him

Love your content! I can't stop watching these videos now after last Christmas I got the awesome opportunity to help a young Sergeant from FortBragg when he broke down enroute to his family for leave! Afterwards we became friends! Never forget my new soldier buddy that I helped get home to his family!!!!this was the most inspiring event to ever happen in my lifetime!! We love honor and totally respect our awesome soldiers in Marion Nc 🇱🇷!

Such special moments, you should also check out pets reacting when soldiers come home.

After 41 years in the Navy, these videos always make me emotional. I have come home to children who don't recognize me and have felt the pain of missing births of children. It isn't easy, but it is what Sailors, Marines, Soldiers, and Airmen do.

This video, and your reaction to it broke me. I served in the U.S. Navy for over 24 years. 13 deployments during my career. Went through a divorce in Pennsylvania just after 9/11, had two wonderful kids age 9 and 8, and then transferred from PA to a deployed Navy fighter squadron on combat operations during ENDURING FREEDOM several months later. Little did I know I wouldn't see my kids for a year and half, and would only see them three weeks during the next three year tour of duty. Two combat cruises and nearly a third. Took a follow-on assignment to Washington DC when I left to be as close to my kids as could and it was the greatest feeling in the world, being there with my kids all the time, any time. Like heaven. Four years later, it was time for another sea tour, and my son really struggled with me leaving. We talked it out Easter weekend 2007 when the kids were with me, took them home to their Mom, went to work on Monday and out of no where told my boss I was retiring from the Navy. I'd done everything in my career field, nothing left to prove, nothing more give other than to my kids. I just couldn't say goodbye anymore to the two people I loved most in this world, to continue to serve, the best job I'd ever have. Best decision I ever made in my life. Thank you for sharing this video Courtney, and your sincere and heartfelt reaction to it. Both beautiful and hard to watch for me at the same time.

As a veteran I have seen a lot of these videos but I will say you have a great reaction and your pouty face is just the cutest 👍

For 32 years I was The soldier in these videos. I surprised my daughter's and son when coming home. At that time there were no videos. But that don't matter. You will never know the joy we felt just seeing each other! Now I see my grandkids daily and I relive these days, every day and so do my kids!

love you court. amazing channel with amazing content

I love the holiday ones where they surprise them for Christmas...talk about try not to cry on that one when they thought they weren’t coming home for Christmas but do. A cute one to watch is the dog reunion ones, watching how exited their dogs get when they return😂

My brother is being deployed to Afghanistan today so this hit hard.

ill never forget it, best feeling in the world. I surprised my family at a Christmas party after a long 6 months of Air Force training and holding my little brother for the first time in a long time......best moment of my life

When my son came home from Afghanistan half way through his deployment he surprised me at work. When his deployment was over he did it again. The emotion is real. he went to church with us and the entire congregation gave him a standing ovation. It's even more special since on 9/11/2001 I was a Flight Attendant with United and lost 3 very close friends who were crew on UAL Flt. 93

I'm a U.S. Navy veteran and these videos always get me.

I was on a flight months after 9/11 and there were about eight soldiers who were on their way to deployment. It was a full transcontinental seven + hour flight and they were scattered about on their way to war. Myself and every other passenger in First Class just looked at each, stood up, and traded seats with our Military Personnel. I’m 6’5” so I hadn’t been in couch in years. It was the best flight that I was ever on. The pilot addressed their presence and the plane erupted. He radioed ahead to the airport and the jetway and all through the terminal people stood on other side chanting and applauding them. It was all spontaneous. You watch a lot of videos about our technology. But we don’t love the plane, we love the pilot , not the Rifleman’s weapon, but the person pulling the trigger. Disney and Universal cost about $200 per person, per park. The military discount is 50%. Every restaurant has a Military Rate. Tampa is the home to USCENTCOM. There are allies and collision members stationed there from every friendly country in the world. They control the missions and deployment of all of our Special Forces and Air Assets in the Middle East, so we’re Super Bowl and Stanley Cup and World Series Champions, and we just had Wrestlemania. We have the Number One airport in the world and am “Food and Wine’s” Top Culinary destination. But if you ask people from here, they’ll stand in their front yard among the towering Oak Trees all wrapped in Yellow Ribbons and tell you it’s MacDill (Air Force Base). General Schwarzkopf lived here until his death, The Rock and Hulk Hogan started here, Jim Morrison went to school here, my friend Dave Bautista lives here (Drax from Guardians of the Galaxy, yeah I go and eat out with Drax several times a month living here) and that multiple warhead nuclear missile that you liked, designed here at Raytheon. Our main Level 1 Trauma Hospital has the highest success rate of organ transplantation in the world. But like I said, Military First. They put on a display every year of a mock special-op using blanks to show other country and people line up everywhere to see the firepower, helicopters, gun boats , and SEALS suddenly popping out from under the boat and boarding while it is still under attack. Please search for “Mock Special Forces Operations Tampa,” or a variation. Love your channel. Discovered it today and hit more bells than the announcement of a Royal Birth!

I was 12 years old when my dad left for iraq he returned when I was 14 and the reunion was something I'll cherice my whole life sadly my dad died this year and lifes been hell without him :(

my father served 37 years in the US military. There is no better feeling than him coming home safe and healthy. Thank you to all service men and women.

ok i was in tears this whole time. thank u to all the men and women out there that have served or are currently serving. can't wait to be one of u guys

We did that for my youngest son. He was a senior in HS and his brother was overseas in the army and got to come in for a few days. It was a nice day.

Girl, I'm crying 'cos you're crying!! You are such a beautiful soul! You can see your kindness in your eyes. The eyes are the window to the soul!! - Stevie B, Auckland, NZ

My mom surprised me after being gone a month for a military training and I bawled like a little baby, she was also deployed for 8 months when I was younger-- these hit so hard 😭😭

We’ve been dealing with COVID for a lesser time than that young man has been without his mother in his life at 4:48. Crazy how that puts things into perspective; what these loving families have to go through whilst serving and protecting their country is truly unimaginable for most. So much respect ✊

Thank you Courtney for showing respect for those who serve in the military. I served in the USAF during the Vietnam War and we didn't receive a warm welcome home from many people.

returning is emotional.. been through it, my daughter was 5 the first time i returned from the middle east and i think the entire city heard her scream and cry when she saw me and ran to me screaming, she was crying so much it made me tear up and i never cry

I was an Army brat for my entire childhood and a soldier for 8 years. These videos get to me but they also annoy me... These moments are so personal and honestly they feel a little disingenuous when they involve a crowd... Surprising a loved one is cool, but seeking attention when you do it just feels wrong. LIKE I SAID- it still gets to me, because I know the feels from both sides. It's just the crowds and cameras that annoy me.

Courtney, I do not blame you for crying during the video about homecoming military members. It is a pleasant thing to see that even other people does have a heart. I love you for showing these videos it was great.

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” Gilbert Keith Chesterton May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

Love has been memorialized in poetry, literature, and song for centuries, but there's nothing more moving than witnessing it with out own eyes.

FOR All those who serve and the families they have to leave behind, THANK YOU!!!

I have to watch these so I can live vicariously through the soldiers coming home to much fanfare and people missing them. When I got back, it was about 2 am, and only my sister showed up to meet me at the airport. There was a fist bump, maybe a small hug, but then just sorta bland, if any, conversation on the half hour ride home. Upon return, I mean, no one was up waiting to welcome me back, no one made any kinda deal about it. Honestly, felt more like they wished I stayed gone longer... 😮‍💨 So I love these videos, and so glad they are so diverse as to who is being surprised, so that I can pretend that it was my own experience and I'm not just watching it.

I'm 45 and was in the Navy. When I have home it was never like this. These hit me in the feels.

A short video of this you will like is " 6 year old walks to dad for first time" the boy has cerabal palsy. And his dad got to see him walk to him when he came home.

The sacrifice's these family's make is amazing. God Bless

I'm glad I am not the only person who watches these with a goofy grin and tears in my eyes

You put together a great video, I could see the honest emotion as you watched. Now imagine how hard it is for me to look at those videos when my dad didn’t come back. I was eight years old. Great job

These videos always bring tears. Welcomed my Son ( Marine) home from Afghanistan twice. ❤🇺🇸

Its such amazing that you can still remeber his face after months or even years.

Very emotional my son is serving overseas 18 months since I saw him Brought tears to my eyes

After my son went into the Army i was so proud! now after not seeing him for over a year because he is deployed im so honered to see this and so sad at the same time! thank you for doing these videoes cause its really a struggle but for a great cause!

People often question and wonder what makes a soldier and why do they serve. This video you watched gives the reason what makes a soldier and why they serve.

As a person who has family in the military and plans on joins soon. I can say its the best feeling when they come back.

Courtney, it is very emotional. It gets me every time, because I have been there myself. I served 20 years in the US Army. My family knows this scene all too well. But, no more, as I am retired from the military. But, I also supported the military as a civilian in Afghanistan. That was more dangerous than my military deployment to Iraq. Artillery shells or rockets fired into the compound almost daily. It even happened while I was on the phone with my wife, and she asked what was that, and I tell her it is the siren for in-coming hostile fire, while I made my way the concrete bunkers. But, many other soldiers have done multiple deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan, so I consider myself lucky in that aspect. It is hard on families, but most family members know that their parents wouldn't have it any other way, because they are PROUD to do their duty as a soldier! GOD BLESS ALL THE SOLDIERS OUT THERE TODAY ! t

Courtney, this was, as expected, emotional for all of us. Thanks for reacting.

I was raised in a Military Family. You learn to appreciate how valuable every minute is by facing death and enduring sacrifice.

Thanks for helping refresh my soul today. Love to you from America.

I love that Servicemen and Servicewoman do stuff like this. You never know if they're coming home until they get there. It's very sweet.

I spent 3 years in the army stationed in the pacific. About half way through I flew back to Minnesota. Just walked into my parents house and asked what was for dinner. My mom and dad were in shock, hadn't seen me in 18 months. Surprise was great.

Thank you for sharing Courtney! Right now I am a happy fountain of tears at the joy I've just seen.

It’s even harder when you send them off my heart breaks every time and now I have a grandson that joined and I’m crying while I’m writing this, full of pride and sadness all at once.

I think that any and every soldier who comes home is an awesome thing.

I come from a navy family. My mother is retired 25 years with 2 deployments. One was to Kuwait and the second to Afghanistan. The hardest part wasn't watching her board the plane. The hardest part was waiting at the airport as she got off. Knowing she came back alive after her base was constantly being attacked almost daily in 2011. Before her first deployment, we both got matching seabees tattoos. Above mine says ( My mom is A) watching these videos always brings me to tears. I am proud of each and every one of our soldiers.

Videos like this always bring a tear to my eye and a smile to my face

Courtney thanks for showing the goodness of my country. We have our problems but we also have a wonderful side, a loving and caring side for one another.

Love finding other New Zealand youtubers. I wanna be in the NZ army so bad before i turn 20

We love our Troops always and pray for there safety and return and never forget the fallen

I can get lost for hours watching these videos. And then last year it happened for my sister. In the same year time frame her daughter moved hundreds of miles away. Her son moved 2hours away and then her 18 yr old twin sons both joined the Air Force. To say it was a tough year is an understatement. One twin she knew would be home for Xmas but the other one -with some help from his big brother and his wife- surprised her and her husband with him. Then they got his twin brother the next day that didn’t know he was going to be there when he got home. Priceless moments

I cry so easily to these videos. These people are amazing and I’m highly grateful to them and their loved ones:)

I've never been known as emotional but I cannot watch these reunion videos without needing at least 5 tissues. They get me in the feels every time.

Well I’m a 12 year veteran with the United States Marine Corps which seven years of deployment before I retired and yes those videos make me cry as well. I went through that with my young son years ago and now he is an officer in the army leaving for deployment tomorrow and I’m sure when he returned it’s going to be the same thing just reversed. Very touching, great job

I can’t see to type. So many tears. God Bless these families that make this sacrifice for us! Thank ALL of you for your service.

These tears of joy are great I cant take anything away. As an army veteran who deployed twice. We need to see a lot more goodbye videos. When the veteran leaves no one knows what will happen. Speaking from experience my three girls never handled it well and that pain i/we put on them still hits me hard. Just saying

Both my sister and her husband were deployed to two bases in South Korea at the same time. They were gone for close to 14 months when all said and done. We had their two kids living with us. They let us know when they were coming home and we met him at the airport. It was so great watching them run to them. The airport let us go up to the gate to see them right away. I will say there wasn’t a dry eye around

Not gonna lie. I tear up at these all the time. It's such an emotional release seeing these family members who have done so long without their military member suddenly having them back again. Just overwhelming and wonderful all at once.