I have not meet that guy but when we came back from my first deployment in 04. We stopped in Bangor Maine, it was 3am in the morning and there was about 40 people there to meet us. They passed out cell phone and made us call our families to tell them that we was on US soil. People really have no idea what it means to the troops coming home to be greeted like that. God bless him and all the ones like them.