Old news new again!

UPDATE
May 13, 2012
Marine Dad Recounts Heartwarming Homecoming of Seeing His Son With Cerebral Palsy Walk For the First Time
by Fox and Friends

After traveling thousands of miles from Afghanistan to reunite with his family, Staff Sgt. Jeremy Cooney was the one who got the surprise of a lifetime. Doctors said his son Michael, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, would never be able to walk. His wife and the mother of their five children, Melissa Cooney, planned the surprise her husband’s homecoming so he would be able to see his son walk for the first time. The entire family joined Fox and Friends this morning to talk more about the heartwarming homecoming.
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UPDATE May 12, 2012
OK, now CBS jumped on this too!

Marine returns from war to surprise

Are you wondering what took all of these "big boys" so long to pick up on such a fantastic story? I'm not really. Considering they have all been spending so much time on other things, it is no real big shocker a wonderful story like this was not important enough to pick up on. After all, they have the same ability to track these stories as I do. Actually, they have more ability but they just don't want to.

UPDATE
Got my answer,,,,the Huffington Post posted it yesterday and it looks like everyone else in the blog world jumped on it.

Jeremy Cooney, US Marine Sgt., Returns Home To Find Son With Cerebral Palsy Can Walk (VIDEO)

This is too funny to just let go. I got an alert on this story and scratched my head wondering what took the The Hill so long.

Marine Welcomed Home By Son Who Walks For the First Time
Posted on May 10, 2012 by TheTamminator // Hillbuzz
Get out the tissues, people.
via Gateway Pundit
© 2012, TheTamminator. All rights reserved.

Just too funny with "all rights reserved" considering I posted it way back in January!

January 31, 2012

Boy With Cerebral Palsy Walks Into The Arms Of Dad Returning From Afghanistan

Boy With Cerebral Palsy Walks Into The Arms Of Dad Returning From Afghanistan

UPDATE May 12, 2012

It looks like the "big boys" finally picked up on this fantastic story. What took them so long?Old news new again

Get ready to cry again!

Boy With Cerebral Palsy Walks Into The Arms Of Dad Returning From Afghanistan
A little boy determined to defy doctors is inspiring people around him.
Posted: 7:45 PM Jan 30, 2012


Six-Year-Old Michael Cooney of Onslow County was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy near his first birthday. His mother Melissa says doctors said he'd never walk again.

But this past December, Michael's dad returned home to Camp Lejeune after a six month deployment-- and for the first time Michael walked to his father.
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GI returns to see her once-stricken daughter walk

Soldier mom's miracle 1:33
One mom comes home from Iraq to see her daughter do something doctors said she never would. WSVN's Rene Marsh reports.



GI returns to see once-stricken daughter walk
By Kelli Kennedy - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Dec 23, 2008 22:05:32 EST

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — On Tuesday morning, little Cheyenne Leslie entered the Ocean Medical Center and ran purposefully into the arms of her physical therapist, to the smiles and cheers of staff workers, the girl seemingly unhindered by her arm and leg brace. It was a dress rehearsal of sorts.

A few hours later, the 4-year-old diagnosed with cerebral palsy as an infant — who doctors once said would likely be confined to a wheelchair for life — ran through the airport terminal to greet a mother who has never even seen her child walk.

Cyd Leslie, an Army specialist who has served in Iraq, Afghanistan and other posts abroad for the past year and-a-half, has only seen her daughter’s steps on video.

The last time Leslie saw Cheyenne in person, she would take a few tentative steps and stumble.

So to finally see her walking, much less running, is nothing short of a miracle, a taste of everything her little girl will be able to accomplish in life.

For years, 24-year-old Cyd has been hoping “kids don’t tease” Cheyenne and “wondering if she’s going to have a boyfriend.”

But when Cheyenne bounded into her arms Tuesday night, she thought, “I’ll never forget this feeling.”

“I looked at her and said, ‘I know what the doctors say, but we believe in God and miracles do happen,’” Grandma Leslie said.
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