Welcome Home Lt. Bass

It was freezing cold on the Morning of Tuesday March 24th just 2 days before our official 7 month mark. My wonderful friends & faithful fellow USMC wives stood on Victory field at 2:00am to welcome home Lt. Bass and India Company 3/7!Kathy Welch, Jon's Co's wife has been a huge encouragement through this deployment. It was great to finish together. She & Keegan are moving on the bigger & better USMC adventures after this and we sure will miss them!Christine & Diana were troopers to wake their little ones in the middle of the night all to show their support. Wow, you really can live through anything as long as you have friends!Jon turned his cell phone on as soon as he reached US soil & was able to text me updates as they traveled. It was really helpful especially b/c the bus left all the officers & SNCO's at the armory...Jon said he was just going to run to Victory Field. Thankfully the bus realized what had happened & went back for the leadership!At this moment the band was playing, Marine were pouring off the bus & I knew that at any moment he'd be there...There he is! My Marine...it felt so good to look across the field and know that he really was standing right there in front of me! Wow, seven months doesn't seem so long once their home.

I lost my shoes in the short sprint across the field, it was such a rush...it really was over! You feel such an incredible sense of accomplishment knowing that your marriage has weathered a storm like this!