Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Marine gets Lion's share of attention at Ford Field

Marine's surprise return from Afghanistan hits home
The Detroit News
Terry Foster and Francis X. Donnelly
November 25, 2013

Detroit — Michelle Munsee thought her husband was half a world away.

During the Lions game Sunday at Ford Field, the scoreboard showed a video message from Marine Capt. Joshua Munsee in Afghanistan, telling Michelle how much he missed her and how he couldn’t wait to return from the war-torn country.

And so Michelle and the couple’s three young children weren’t ready for what happened next.

At the end of the video, the family, standing on the football field, turned to see Joshua — live and in person — jogging toward them.

Michelle held her hand to her mouth in shock.

“Where did you come from?” she asked her husband. “I don’t even know how you pull something off like this.”

Moments later, she was still trying to get her mind around what had happened. It was a happy struggle.

“Stunned is a good word,” she said. “I was completely shocked.”
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