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  • 2010-03-10 (xsd:date)
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  • Welcome Home, Daddy! (en)
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  • In its original unadorned state, a much-shared photograph appears to feature a heavily pregnant woman (with the words WELCOME HOME DADDY inked across her exposed belly) waiting with her young son to welcome her husband home from an extended absence. But captioning and text that has been added to circulated versions of the photo suggest the man whom the mother and son are waiting for is a U.S. soldier returning home after a twelve-month tour of duty in Iraq: a supposed PATERNITY FAIL since if the husband had been away from home and separated from his wife for a full year, he couldn't possibly be the father of the child she's carrying (the normal human gestation period being about nine months): There are several possible non-adulterous explanations for how a soldier returning from a year-long deployment overseas could be coming home to greet a pregnant wife, the simplest being that the couple had gotten together in previous months while the husband was on leave. That explanation is indeed the genuine back story to this picture, as noted in the caption to one of the other photographs in this sequence taken from an August 2009 Denver Post news report about the return to Colorado of soldiers based out of Fort Carson: (en)
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