My Guys Are Home!!!

Hurray!

I just found out the two men I have been worried about who are enlisted and overseas are on U.S. soil. 

One man was reddening himself for retirement from the Army when he was suddenly called to Afghanistan.  He left his wife and children, and had to take a break on his doctoral work.  I received an email from him the other day, responding to some jokes I sent him, and he reported he was moving his family to another station just a few miles from his home.

Now he can get back to his family and perhaps finish his doctorate as well.  He wanted to have a Ph.D. by the time he retired from the service so he could teach.  He is an awesome father and a great person.  Glad he is back!

The other fellow is a guy I dated a couple of times till we figured out we were better friends.  I moved off to do my thing, and then found out he was shipped off to Iraq.  What made it really precarious was he had just found out the woman who he had kind of liked at one place he was working had liked him as well, they just never told each other at the time.  When they met up again, they told each other of their past attraction to each other, it was done before it was started: wedding bells were almost ringing.  They made sure they got married before he was shipped out.  So, I was really hopping he would come back, safe and sound, to his new wife. 

By the time my travels brought me back to Las Vegas, I had no idea how to find out when and if my friend made it home.  I happened to have an issue come up just recently which I thought he might be interested in.  I checked on LinkedIn just out of curiosity, and to my surprise my friend’s profile showed him not only back on U.S. soil but clear across the country.  So, I am sure he has started his new life with his new wife and I hope he stays here and is able to do all the things he dreamt of before he left.  He is a very talented man with many dreams.

So, what a day for karma kookies~two in one day!