The long awaited day for the return of my daughters fiancee arrived on Tuesday. Fort Hood was all hustle and bustle awaiting arrival of the troops. The troops were arriving at 4:15 pm so said the official voice on the phone when my daughter was called and given this information. Her boss, I guess, felt guilty for not giving her enough time to pick up the kids and get to Ft. Hood. She was letting her off at 3:30. Ad it turned out she let her off at 2:00.
Before going to the greeting area it was required that you had to get a visitors pass. There was only one person issuing these passes and my daughter was number 727 and it was already getting close to arrival time. She got her pass, got the kids put into the car and off to the air field they went. They got there with no time to spare.
You could not see the troops get off of the planes but when they did arrive they were on buses. All visitors were in the bleachers and standing around the bleachers when the buses pulled up. The exit doors were facing away from the crowd so that the troops could exit the buses and get into formation. After about 20 minutes the spectators started yelling "move the buses" and they did reveling the many troops standing in formation. There was a short ceremony and then they were released.
Can you imagine almost 1000 people trying to find each other. My daughters phone started ringing and her boyfriend was asking where she was. Fortunately she was standing next to a woman who was holding several yellow balloons. With that as a guide they finally met.
Among all who were there, there were many hugs, kisses and tears.
When Jereme and Lorri met he dropped to one knee and said I have something cool to show you and went into his bag and pulled out a beautiful ring and said "will you marry me" and of course the answer was yes. Lorri looked at the kids and smiled and both Angelica and Spencer, my grand kids were crying.
I guess you could call that a happy ending to a busy day.
God Bless Lorri and Jereme and all of the men and women in the armed forces around the world.
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