Watch last night’s military surprise in Rupp Arena
During a timeout in the first half of last night’s game, Zachary Moody, a senior airman in the U.S. Air Force, surprised his family by returning home from deployment.
The Owingsville, Ky. native was seen on the video boards giving a message from what we were to believe was Afghanistan, but we soon learned he was actually steps away from the Rupp Arena floor, where his family was in for a special surprise.
These get me every time.
10 Comments for Watch last night’s military surprise in Rupp Arena
Thank you for your service Airman Moody!
I appreciate the service of our soldiers … but do we really need to do so many military surprises? These just seem a bit too overly dramatic, don’t they? What not just tell the family there are coming and have a reunion? I think that would be good for everyone.
STRONGLY disagree, Smyrna_Cat. With all the bad stuff happening in the year these days, we absolutely NEED more things like this. God, Country, Family, Love – these are the important things in life. The rest is just window dressing.
Meant to say “bad things happening in the world”, but I think you catch my drift.
Don’t be a Grinch Smyrna Cat. I TOTALLY agree with you about injured vets in your statement below, but can’t we do both?
That’s awesome!
RealCatsFan, I agree about God, Country, Family … etc. I just don’t see how these “military surprises” really move the bar forward. I would rather see that level of support for our vets who are injured, etc.
Couldn’t agree more that we need to support those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, or nearly done so. I just don’t see the harm in surprising someone, although my wife made it clear that she would never want to be proposed to in public before I married her. 🙂
Videos like this get me right in the feels every time
How many of these videos do they show, with the family out there, that the soldier doesn’t make a surprise visit? Wouldn’t that suck for that family? You know they would have to be thinking in the back of their mind that the soldier might be showing up.