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Welcome Home !!!!!

Today is the day that everyone who knows and loves Amy and Kevin have been waiting for, for months. Today Kevin comes home SAFELY from Afghanistan and returns to his newlywed Wife's loving arms.

I don't think I really understood or appreciated what our troops go through when they fight for our freedom untill Caca and Amy both had their husbands go off to war and had to stay home and continue life without them. I will never fully understand the fear and loneliness they go through unless I go through it as well, but I can tell you I am SO THANKFUL of Mr Caca and Kevin's protection of us as a country.

Without wonderful men (and women) like them, I am scared to think what life would be like here in America. It certainly wouldn't be the same without our troops on the line every single day, putting their lives in danger, just to protect ours.

Seriously, think about it for a minute. Our troops, especially when deployed, could, and DO, die, every single day. They put themselves in dangerous situations, stay in horrible living conditions, if you even want to call it a living condition, and really do suffer, FOR US. And most of us take it for granted. We think we are entitled to have people protect us while we sit around on our butts and do nothing. Its not a right we have, but a privileged that all these brave men and women go to battle for us and go through horrible, unspeakable things that they see and do, just for us.

Not only do they put their lives on the line for us every single day, all day long, but they leave their families and friends, for months, sometimes years at a time. And they don't complain. They do it to serve our country. How would you like it if you had just gotten married and your husband had to go away for his job on months on end? Alot of us complain when we can't see our significant others for a few days or a week or two. But yet these men and women do it for significantly longer, and do it for us and they are protecting us.

I know this is a little rambly, but I hope you follow what I'm trying to say. We live in a wonderful country and its made that way by the men and women who sacrifice their entire lives so that we can be safe. Take a minute now and think about it. Think about what they give up for us. And next time you see someone in a uniform, go up to them. Thank them. I've done it before. And while it shocks them, I think its good for them to know that people appreciate and realize the sacrifices they make for us.

God Bless America!!

And Welcome Home Kevin!!

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