I saw this painting recently in London. It purports to be St Monica being handed her newly born son who was to become Augustine of Hippo.
It seems to me that this painting explains much.
7 responses to “Military Reunion Videos”
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Yes, the first one is a little too well produced.
Such sweet doggies in the second!!!
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I’m imagining the cat version: disdainful look; “have you been away? my food bowl’s empty” miaow; walks off.
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Having enjoyed the doggie reunions video very much, Opal the Cat wishes to say that he hasn’t looked at his food dish once since I got back here tonight, nose rubbing, tummy tickling, head butting and general joyous ‘glad to see you’ stuff for a couple of hours, then an interesting video, followed by a companionable sleep on the table – on my hand ….
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I know someone who ,when he was young, used to get a similar reception from a boxer dog called Tess
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Yes, the first one is neatly packaged, but it appears to be a commercial, not home videos.
Sorry, but it doesn’t take returning from a tour of duty for dogs to act this way, just go to the grocery store for 30 minutes and dogs will behave the same over-the-top way!
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Some of the dogs are bigger than the humans
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In case no one saw it, here’s video number one in real life;
http://lgbtweekly.com/2012/04/26/gay-marine-says-i-do-on-base-a-first/
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