LETTERS: Navy serviceman

out “quite wel l.” The couple had a couple more dates afterward while Greg was still home in Minnesota.

“Greg even took me to his family Christmas dinner at his grandfather’s house, where I met his family,”

Suzanne said. “We were able to spend New Year’s Eve together before he left to fly back to NAS (Naval Station) Corpus Christi.”

They continued a long distance relationship by talking on the telephone three times a week for six months while he was on base.

“He was planning to come home in July for a wedding, so he invited me to fly down to the base he was stationed at to spend time together before driving back to Minnesota together,” Suzanne said. “We had a good time there at South Padre Island as well as horseback riding on the King Ranch, where he kept a horse. A week after the wedding, he left home for Texas.”

Greg was then transferred to the Naval Station in Mayport, Florida, and the USS Saratoga.

“He was very lonely there, and during one of our late night chats, he asked me if I would consider moving to Florida,” Suzanne said. “Confused by the question, I replied, ‘What are you asking me?’ Greg responded that