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July 4th Special Connection

Jul- 4-2005 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

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Kara Lusk, WNCT-TV 9

July Fourth is an especially emotional day for military families with loved ones fighting overseas. The very thing we are celebrating here – they are trying to achieve in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Monday – it was a special reunion between an Army soldier and his wife -- half-a-world apart.

ShanTay Smith, of Ayden, has not seen her husband Cpl. Emmitt Smith in nearly a year. But on July Fourth, Nine On Your Side helped "spark" a connection via satellite.

"Honey? Yeah? Hi! How are you? Not bad. Not bad at all," said Cpl. and ShanTay Smith to one another.

On America's Independence Day, Cpl. Emmitt Smith got to leave the frontlines in Mosul, Iraq for a short while to talk to his wife ShanTay from the WNCT-TV studio.

They haven't seen each other since last August. Their son, KeJean, is now just over a year old.

"How's the rest of the family doing,” asked Cpl. Smith. “Oh, busy as ever, you know," said Mrs. Smith.

Cpl. Smith is a Striker Vehicle Commander. He is with 3/21 Alpha Company, based at Fort Lewis, Washington.


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