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Small town America embraces soldiers returning from war.
Byline: Joseph L. Galloway
BANGOR, Maine _ They gather on an hour's notice, racing to Bangor International Airport with cakes and cookies. Another planeload of American troops is inbound for its first stop on American soil. These volunteers, many old veterans themselves, are determined that no new American war veteran will come home without anyone noticing or caring.
So they throw a loud, raucous and heartwarming surprise party two or three or four times a day, and they don't care if it seems a little quaint. They love doing it and the troops coming home love them for it.
In 1991 and 1992, crowds of up to 2,000 Bangor volunteers turned out to celebrate the return of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Flight schedules were published in the local newspaper. That was before Sept. 11. Now there is only an hour or two advance notice, and airport security prefers that no more than a hundred or so greeters gather to meet the planes.
So the word is passed by a telephone tree run by Becky Davis, the mother of a Marine and two Army soldiers ...
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