This is a picture of Meaghan, Cathy, Rebecca, me and Kimberly the night I left for Iraq in July of 2003...For the next five months, Cathy did the single parent thing with three teenage daughters in Germany...I had the easy part going to Iraq. Two days after I returned from Iraq in December, we had the first doctor appointment, and we got the first diagnosis on 18 December 2003, our 20th wedding anniversary. Cathy never missed a beat, even after her first surgery, getting up at 4 a.m. on Christmas morning to make her homemade cinnamon rolls...
