Family Day

Today was Family Day for the Hernando Infantry Unit that Drew is the Commander of. It was nice to meet some of the guys that Drew talks so much about and their wives also. There are alot of young guys in the unit that have not deployed before so this day was very useful for them...There were several speakers on the ins and outs of a deployment and handling things in the midst of your spouse's absence...alot of things I wished I had known the first go round. Something that really got me today was a presentation they made to a young boy. Ty is a St. Jude patient with leukemia. He is VERY interested in the Army National Guard. Make A Wish Foundation let Drew's unit know about this young man and they made it possible for Ty to be inducted into the unit...right down to the uniform with patches. He had a certificate and everything. The look on this young mans face was priceless and his parents as well. They told us later that we had created a monster by doing this!!! She said he will probably never take this uniform off! His sister, Samantha (and donor) was there also and was a match for his bone marrow. What a sweet little family!