Operation Welcome Home—Maryland!

Last updated May 10, 2008

“Troops Return Home to Patriotic Welcome”

                 -- Carroll Standard

 

                 “A Hero’s Welcome”

                 -- Annapolis Capital

                

“Operation Welcome Home Draws a Crowd”

                                -- Maryland Gazette

Hundreds of our Sailors, Airmen, Soldiers and Marines return from the War on Terror every week though the gates of the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.  Since March 2007, Operation Welcome Home volunteers have greeted 37 flights and more than 8,000 Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines. 

We invite you to come on out and help us welcome them home!

Call 410-630-1555 for recorded information about our next event

Volunteers are always needed to give our troops the hero’s welcome that they deserve.  Operation Welcome Home (Maryland) averages one welcome home event per week, and YOU could be part of the excitement.  Individuals, corporations, youth groups, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, civic organizations, religious organizations, and government agencies have all participated in events since our founding in March 2007.

Volunteers help decorate the lobby with patriotic signs and banners.  They also package “goodie bags” for the troops, many of whom are hungry, thirsty, and tired from their travels and will be waiting on a connecting flight.  When the troops arrive through the doors of the International Arrival terminal, we shower them with praise, cheering them on, hugging them, offering them a “goodie bag,” and thanking them for their service.

Thank you for your interest in supporting our troops and giving them the hero’s welcome they deserve!!!

 

Until We Meet Again