2020- the CORONAPOCALYPSE (.....the ENDING)

Home!  After being gone for nearly two months, including fully three weeks in quarantine, I finally got to go home!  Back to family.  Back to our house.  Back to friends.  Back to work.  Back to our life.  Back to running in my wonderful, sunny, hundred degree heat along the canal in Phoenix (instead of laps around the hotel in San Diego).  Back to some degree of normalcy. Admittedly, two months is relatively "short" by most deployment standards to be sure. 

It was humbling to be returning home on Memorial Day, after serving our country helping to combat the "silent enemy" in New York City, which was a solemn reminder to keep those service members who made the ultimate sacrifice in our thoughts and prayers, as well as their families.  Despite the current Coronapocalypse still going on, we still have the honor and privilege to live in the greatest country in the world! Today is a reminder of that fact, and for us to remember those who have come before us, serving our country, and paying the ultimate price to defend our freedom and democracy and our way of life that we enjoy in the United States. To them, I salute you and thank you from the bottom of my heart.....

Steph kept up the tradition and had tied the yellow ribbon around the tree in our front yard.  Upon our return from the airport, I was able to untie it and take it down.  At least for now...