I tust you had a Merry Christmas! Here's a Happy New Year to you, everyone on this thread and all our service men and women!
Yes we had a wonderful family Christmas. I bet yours was the same...only with LOTS more family.
Stuff that makes me so darned proud
Soldier offers to stay in Iraq
Published in the Home News Tribune 12/18/03
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOWER TOWNSHIP -- A New Jersey Army National Guard member is home for the holidays, thanks to a colleague's generosity.
When the Cape May Court House-based 253rd Transportation Company held a drawing to determine who would get leave, Specialist Jonathan Hinker -- the married father of a 7-year-old son -- drew too high a number to qualify. However, the 34-year-old Lower Township man's disappointment soon turned to joy when Specialist James Presnall volunteered to stay in Iraq.
"(Presnall) felt it was more important (that) Jon was able to come home for his family. He gave up his opportunity to come home," Hinker's wife, Buffi, told The Press of Atlantic City.
Presnall, a 20-year-old Galloway Township native who is not married, had planned to spend his leave with his parents, Howard and Toni Presnall. While disappointed about not seeing their son, they were overjoyed to learn of their son's selfless act.
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http://www.thnt.com/thnt/story/0,21282,871918,00.html