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A soldier comes home.(In real life: first-person America)
SARANAC LAKE, NEW YORK--There are no longer generators running, or armored vehicles rumbling, or mortars exploding, and the roar of the silence is deafening to me. What I hear at night now is the gentle breaths released from the perfect lips of my sons. The same lips that I cannot kiss enough. The lips that make my eyes fill with tears every time they touch my cheeks.
My release from Fort Drum came earlier than expected, so when I pulled into my driveway at noon the house was empty. I dropped my bags inside and walked alone through the rooms, soaking in the images and smells that had been only a memory during ten months in Iraq.
My oldest son's first-grade teacher had been wonderful to me while I was away. She sent school updates and pictures via e-mail almost weekly. So when I popped my head into her classroom she came running and gave me a "welcome home" hug.
"Easton is practicing a song. Why don't you surprise him?"
My heart was racing. I followed the sound of the piano and the little voices singing, then stood and watched. Trickles of love and pride started involuntarily down my cheeks as I listened to my son. He has gotten so big. The anticipation built as I waited for him to see me.
The little girl next to him was the first to notice the uniformed man standing in the doorway. The image she saw and the facts she had been told were doing battle in her brain. Then her eyes grew wide and her mouth fell open.
"Easton! Easton ... your Daddy's here!" she said in an electrified whisper.
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- Press release article from: Business Wire February 7, 2006 700+ words
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- Press release article from: Business Wire March 5, 2008 700+ words
VAN NUYS, Calif. -- Easton-Bell Sports, Inc., a leading designer...adidas AG, will assume the role of Easton-Bell CEO in April. Board member Timothy...Partners, the majority shareholder of Easton-Bell, will immediately assume the...
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...apartments on about 23 acres as part of Easton Commons, a residential project marking the final piece of the massive Easton mixed-use development in Northeast...first 14 acres for the project along Easton Way for $4.9 million. The developer...
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...BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 2000 Easton Minerals Ltd. (CDNX:EM.) The Directors of Easton announced that further to the original announcement...completion of a formal agreement between Easton and Sephia, the approval of relevant regulatory...
Source: HighBeam Research, A soldier comes home.(In real life: first-person America)