My brother is coming HOME!

[Marrah_G]

I got the news today that he should be back on American ground late Wednesday. I want to jump up and down and scream. I'm waiting until I hear he is actually here before I breathe again.

Thank you to those DUers who offered well wishes over the last 8 months. You know who you are and I appreciate it.

Right now I am just thrilled to death that he will be able to finally meet his son (born in July) and hug his other 5 who have had a really, really tough time with this. I've been in tears on and off all day, but finally they are good tears and not scared tears.

I can almost breathe again!

:bounce:
:bounce:
:bounce:

[murielm99]

1. Great news!

I am happy for you and yours.

[liberaldemocrat7]

35. Very good and glad to see he will come home safe.

Thanks to him for fighting for my freedom.

[Marrah_G]

40. I will do that.

He joined because he really wanted to serve his country. I don't thenk he ever imagined someone like W being commander in chief.

[Bigmack]

2. Hit him with a ....

love bomb bigger than any IED!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Welcome home solider

good for him

[Marrah_G]

7. Sailor and yup, my only wish is that others weren't taking his place.

He just trained his successor ( for lack of a better word) We are going to keep yelling and marching and hopefully before long no more of our military will be away from their families for a lie and a crime.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. My chief came home in 2002 for the last time

and it took getting creative not to get him forcibly extended

Been marching since before the shooting started and will continue to

:-)

Tell him hi from a fellow navy wife

[Marrah_G]

14. I will do that !

He was retired for ten years before they re-activated him. I hope yours never, ever has to go back. Military wives get a TON of my respect. You all seem so incredibly strong and brave.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. That is my nightmare, orders

[gateley]

4. I'm jumping up and down FOR you AND him! Thank him for us, would you? nt

[Marrah_G]

6. Absolutely!

[zabet]

5. Great news!!!

May he have a safe and swift journey home!

:patriot:

[applegrove]

8. Happy for you

[NanceGreggs]

9. Wonderful news!

And your joy is absolutely contagious!

:hi:

[Marrah_G]

12. Thank you Nance!

SO good to have happy news for a change.

[babylonsister]

10. Yay Yay Yay!!!

I'm happy for him and your whole family!:woohoo: :patriot: :woohoo: :patriot:

[democrank]

13. YAAAAAY!

So happy for you! ~PEACE~

[WillyT]

15. Great News !!!

:bounce::grouphug::bounce:

[upi402]

17. great news!!!! n/t

[MLFerrell]

18. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

I'm so happy for you and your family!

:pals:

Buy him a round of these:

:toast:

and make sure you throw him a big homecoming one of these: :party:

[Marrah_G]

30. I'll be seeing him at Thanksgiving, Guinesses in hand!

They are going to hide out in a cabin for a couple weeks when he gets in.

Wheeeeeeeeeee I just want to dance around like a nut right now.

[MLFerrell]

39. "Wheeeeeeeeeee I just want to dance around like a nut right now."

That's how I felt when Ryan came back the first time.

He's gone for another eight or nine months at the minimum.

:(

[Marrah_G]

41. He will make it home safe ML, I know it

And we will all keep fighting to make sure this ends so they don't have to go back.

I'll light a candle for Ryan now, since my own is safe.

~big hugs~

[MLFerrell]

52. Thanks, Marrah_G.

I appreciate your lighting of the candle. Not my thing, but I deeply respect the sentiment.

I'm glad that your brother is coming home (finally!).

I know EXACTLY how you must feel right now. A great burden has been lifted from your shoulders. From the shoulders of EVERYONE who knows and cares about your brother.

There's really nothing quite like it, is there?

You can FINALLY get back to your regularly scheduled life now.

Enjoy the feeling. Enjoy the moment.

I pray that it lasts, permanently. I hope that your brother doesn't ever again have to fight in the name of evil. (there, I said it)

Me? I won't be satisfied until EVERY brother, sister, son, daughter, father and mother has been brought home once and for all.

And I have a sneaking suspicion that you feel the same way.

Enjoy it, please. Enjoy it for all of us who haven't yet had the privilige this time around.

:)

When you see him, hoist a drink, and tell him to toast my brother, his comrade-in-arms.

I'd like that.

[Marrah_G]

53. I will absolutely do that

[MLFerrell]

55. Thanks!

I really do appreciate that. Show your brother my latest journal entry. Maybe he'll recognize one of the Iraqi locales.

[Breeze54]

44. How are you doing?

:hug:

[MLFerrell]

54. Me? How am I doing?

OK, I guess. I'm really getting to crunch time with respect to my graduate studies. Hundreds of pages of reading, and a dozen plus pages of writing per week, plus some ignored projects that are sure to be taxing (and ominously looming on the horizon). Aside from that bullshit, I'm good.

How's by you?

:)

[Breeze54]

57. Hanging in there...by a thread.

We have to move. The place is being sold and I'm desperately trying to pack up
and I need help my son's muscles but he's been working a lot and times passing...
I was just asking because I haven't seen your name here in awhile since you posted
about your bro. I hope he's going good too! Sounds like you have a lot of work. ugh!
Take care!

[cboy4]

19. That's so exciting Marrah. I can't imaginw how

difficult it's been and what you've been going through!! :bounce:

[Marrah_G]

29. His wife and kids are what worried me most.

Thanks CB!

[malaise]

20. I know the feeling

Celebrate :bounce:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

21. Joyous News!

Hooray and WELCOME HOME in advance! :woohoo:

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

[TahitiNut]

22. Here's to his peace of mind and peaceful readjustment.

The more love and acceptance he can get the better it'll be for him. Congratulations.

[H2O Man]

23. That's great.

I'm happy for you and your family.

[AuntPatsy]

24. that really is wonderful news, I'm thrilled for you and him and your family..

[Dave From Canada]

25. Congrats! He's coming home in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas, pretty cool.

[onethatcares]

26. yeeeeeehawwww, for him and you.

all that have a family member or a close friend in the war zone know the feeling very well.

[Rex]

27. Good for you!

Best news I've heard around here in a long time! :toast:

[Zandor]

28. Thank him for his service

K & R

[Marrah_G]

32. I gonna thank him for not getting his ass blown off !

:bounce:

[Zandor]

33. That too! n/t

[Richard Steele]

31. Great news! recommended

[Breeze54]

34. Hurray!!!! Yippee!!!!

I'm so happy for him and you and all your family!! :cry:

:hug:

I know how hard this has been for you all waiting and wondering and worrying.

But it's OVER!!!!!!!

. . . . . . . . . . .

[Marrah_G]

38. Thanks Breeze

YOu've been such a sweetie through it all. We really need to get together for coffee soon!

~big huge hugs~

[Breeze54]

43. ((((((((( HUGS )))))))))

You are very sweet too! :hug:

And :donut: it shall be!

[Swamp Rat]

36. YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Uncle Joe]

37. I'm happy for you and your family, Marrah.

:)

[MissDeeds]

42. I'm so happy for you

and your family! Wow! This is such great news. Be sure to let him know that we had him in our thoughts and hearts.

[snappyturtle]

45. Super! Wonderful news. K&R nt

[Ilsa]

46. That is great news! Glad things have worked out for your family. nt

[annabanana]

47. Most excellent, wonderful, good, happy

relief-making news. hugs all around!

[flyarm]

48. Absolutely wonderful!!!..and I am so happy for you and for his wife and children!!

so very happy for your family that he is returning home safely!!

Should be a great homecoming for you all!!

Bless him and your family for your enormous sacrifices!!

fly

[cali]

49. Oh Marrah

I am so,so pleased for you, your brother, his children and your entire family.

cali

[Marrah_G]

50. Thanks Cali!

:loveya:

[AwakeAtLast]

51. So, so happy for you!!!

You must be beside yourself!

Give him lots of hugs and love from the DU!!!

:woohoo: :toast: :bounce: :toast: :woohoo:

[SeattleGirl]

56. YAY!!!!!!!

That is such great news, Marrah!

:bounce: :bounce:

[Captain Angry]

58. My brother just got home from Iraq

I know the feeling.

Two good guys home. Now it's everybody else's turn to come home too.

[Breeze54]

60. That's awesome, Captain Angry! Yea!!

You must be so relieved!! I hope he's doing well and getting back to normal life again!
Don't forget my son! That makes 3 and there have been a few others here that had
people come home. ;) We have to keep working on getting the rest home too! You're right!

. .

[Captain Angry]

61. He's doing so well, it's scary.

He got to do the family reunion thing, and he'll be out of the Army in a couple of months.

If I'd been through the tours he's been through, I probably wouldn't have made it home in one piece. He's the man. And he's 10 years younger than I am.

[Breeze54]

62. I hear that! It's a lot to go through.

I'm glad to hear he's doing so well! That's a big relief! :D
My son took off 6 months and slept and played music and met a girl
and then found a really good job and seems to be doing really well,
so I'm glad for that! I was worried for a while and I & he were worried
he was going to be called back with the surge escalation and we
held our breath but he didn't get any calls. Whew! We have to end this war! :grr:

[Marrah_G]

67. Woooo Wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so happy for you and your family. Hopefully they never have to go back!

[orleans]

59. i'm very happy for you. and your brother. n/t

[UrbScotty]

63. Let me join in on the celebration!

:bounce:

[Hekate]

64. Oh Marrah, I'm so happy for you and his family. May he arrive home safely and on time.

Bright blessings on you all.

Hekate

[Marrah_G]

68. Thanks Hekate!

Blessed be!

Marrah

[comtec]

65. GRATZ!!!! **HUGZ**

:grouphug:

[wicket]

66. Yay!!!!!

That's awesome :)

:hug:

[PeaceNikki]

69. Fantastic news!

Peace and love to your entire family!

:hug:

May all of our troops follow him home.

[Dorian Gray]

70. Yeah!

I'm happy for you! That's great!

[CottonBear]

71. How wonderful for you and your family and his family! n/t