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Video: Daughter's dash to welcome dad home brings smiles to fellow soldiers

 
Karas Ogelsby had such a hard time waiting for the dismissal of the troops during a homecoming Tuesday she broke away from her mom and ran to her father, Lt. Daniel Ogelsby at at Fort Carson, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Lt. Ogelsby gave her hug and gently sent her back to her mom until the end of the ceremony. [Jerilee Bennett |  Gazette via AP]
Karas Ogelsby had such a hard time waiting for the dismissal of the troops during a homecoming Tuesday she broke away from her mom and ran to her father, Lt. Daniel Ogelsby at at Fort Carson, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Lt. Ogelsby gave her hug and gently sent her back to her mom until the end of the ceremony. [Jerilee Bennett | Gazette via AP]
Published Oct. 8, 2015

FORT CARSON, Colo. — Top brass at a Colorado Army post are all smiles after a 2-year-old girl interrupted a general's speech to dash across the room and hug her dad, who had just come home from a nine-month deployment.

Fort Carson spokeswoman Dani Johnson says "everyone thought it was awesome" when 1st Lt. Daniel Oglesby's daughter Karas gave him a knee-high embrace during the homecoming ceremony Tuesday.

Oglesby was standing in formation with other members of the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team when his daughter galloped toward him, arms outstretched.

Johnson says everyone in the room laughed, including Maj. Gen. Ryan Gonsalves, the post commander, who was welcoming the soldiers home at the time.

Oglesby hugged and kissed his girl and sent her back across the room to her mom and sister.

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