The hard part arrived....the last hugs before he gets on his plane and flies away from us....we don't say it, but we all know we might not ever see him again. It is the reality of having a Marine for a Dad and a Husband.....they fight bad guys in the enemies land. It's a dangerous job with no guarentees of survival....Vicki always takes the goodbyes really hard.....The Dude In Not In Cammies is on robot mode by this point and he isn't even really with us anymore. His mind is already in battle mode. We can feel it in his hugs, they are barely there, mine are always one armed by this point....i understand....he gives us the big goodbye hugs at the house after we have one last family prayer before we leave to drop him off. By the time we arrive at his drop off location he has already completly seperated himself from the civillian world and even though he wasn't in cammies this time, he was still in full Marine mode when they called his flight over the microphone.
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| Just a half way hug |
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| The one arm hug... |
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| Vix in full blown tears...she makes it rough on the rest of us!!! |
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