Tickets - when you left, and when you returned.

This morning we're remembering and thinking of all the veterans in our family and honoring them.  There are dozens of veterans in our family and also many friends who also served. 

I knew we had Jon's plane ticket home from Vietnam, but during our discussion Jon told me that he still had his bus ticket which took him from his home in Missoula to Butte and then by train to Fort Lewis to be inducted into the army.  January 1968.   He has kept it in his wallet all of these years and never told me about it.   Even after more than fifty years of marriage there are still things to learn about each other.  I love it!  I am also very proud of him and what he did for our country.  

This is a photo of his airline ticket home.  His flight flew from Vietnam to Alaska, to Seattle and then almost home to Great Falls, Montana.  Back then you couldn't fly into Missoula so his parents met him there.  September 27, 1970.

Thank you!

They served their country and it wasn't easy.