Home from the Front!

Just thought I would write a quick post. We have good news! I am almost afraid I will jinx it!

The soldiers from the 118 MP Company, 503rd MP Battallion are coming home! They are scheduled to arrive at Ft. Bragg on sometime next month! I am afraid to do my "Happy Dance" as we got fooled into believing this back in May...but I have been assured that this time it is FOR REAL!

So, alot will be happening very soon! I will be traveling back to Ft. Bragg to be there when my baby steps onto American soil! He will then be home for 3 weeks leave sometime after that...we are planning a Welcome Home Ride with the Patriot Guard from the airport which will then open up into a down home Missouri style Bar B Q in our back yard! Yep! I got to get cleaning!

Even though this news is bittersweet, with the loss of our beloved soldier just last month, it will be good to have them home.

I pray for this war to end...I want no other mother or father to lose their child because of this...they have just been too many...in Kansas City, the week after I returned from Sacramento for the funeral of our beloved soldier, we lost another MP who was stationed in Baghdad...not from my son's unit...but a soldier just the same...I grieve for his family as if they were my own...I was able to assist Soldiers Angels "water brigade" as the Patriot Guard members stood guard. We had about 80 members that day...I am so proud be allowed to be present with them...it is just so heartwarming...the respect they pay the fallen soldier and that soldiers family is so enormous...please if you get a chance...volunteer at least once with the PGR. You don't need to ride a bike..."cages" are welcome too! FYI-a "cage" in PGR term are those of us who like to drive with 4 wheels and manufactured air conditioning! LOL!

With this I will close for tonight...

As always, Head down, Eyes Open, I Love You.