Senior airman from Hudson Valley surprises family after being deployed for 7 months
A special military homecoming happened Wednesday at The BRIDGE School at Rye Brook.
A special military homecoming happened Wednesday at The BRIDGE School at Rye Brook.
Greenburgh native and Senior Airman Audrea Dash-Goodman was deployed for the last seven months in the Middle East.
She says being away from her son, Jonah, and her mom, Dee, hasn't been easy.
"I was eight hours ahead, there was times when I lost sleep just to talk with my son and my mom," says Dash-Goodman.
She says Jonah is a very sweet and smart 6-year-old boy.
"He was born with a brain injury. I prayed for him to walk. Now, he's walking with a walker and he's learning sign language," says Dash-Goodman.
He goes to The BRIDGE School at Rye Brook, a division of Cerebral Palsy of Westchester.
"He gives me inspiration," says Dash-Goodman's mom, Dee Dash.
The senior airman got some inspiration of her own when she found out she would be coming home.
She wanted to make it special, so she got in touch with Jonah's school to make a plan.
Staff and teachers there helped make the surprise happen.
First, Dash-Goodman surprised her son.
"Felt like I was holding him when he was just born," says Dash-Goodman.
Moments later, she reunited with her mom who was shocked.
"I'm praying every day that she's okay because she told me she was on this serious mission," says Dash.
Dash-Goodman has been in the United States Air Force for nearly three years.
She is set to stay back home for a while.
