Then-22-year-old Shane Rader returned home to Gilbert, Arizona, from a three-year deployment in the U.S. Army, and he gave his adoring teenage sister the shock of a lifetime when he walked into the house. Their emotional reunion, caught on camera, was memorable.
Rader had gone off to serve in the Army and had spent three years deployed in Italy. He and his brother, John Rader, then 37, had decided to keep Shane’s return a secret from their younger sister, Elizabeth Copeland, who was 16 at the time.
