>> homecoming is the day troops and their families dream of. >> oh, my god! >> and more than a few of them are caught on camera. >> april, 2011, senior airman trevor crowder is anxious to return home from his nine-month deployment in iraq. >> i was excited. i was nervous at the same time. i wasn't expecting a big homecoming. i knew it was going to be my wife. i wasn't expecting a big parade or anything. >> back home in nebraska, there is more than one family member who misses trevor dearly. >> good boy. >> emmett thunderpaws is a 3-year-old great dane, the pride and joy of the crowder family. while trevor's deployed, emmett misses his playmate. >> get in my face and pushing me down. >> emmett, he missed rolling around with trevor. they're best friends.