Thanks everyone! I am happy. I swear I have this big goofy grin plastered to my face.

Before I got my license(and boy was he ever so pleased to find out I got my drivers license whike he was gone!) Joey would bring me to work every morning and we'd always have coffee at this little coffee shop across from my work.

The ladies who worked there came to know us as Sleeping Beauty and the Cop(the names are another story altogether ) and knew our drink orders etc.. Well, when he left they'd always tell me to tell him hello and that they were praying for him. We stopped by this morning because I told him that KayKay and Charlotte, the two ladies who work at the coffee shop, wanted to see him.

I don't think he was expecting their absolute joy at seeing him. They screamed gave him a big hug, kept telling him how proud they were of him and how they prayed for his safe return home. He finally got some good coffee(on the house of course). They made such a big deal that everyone in the coffee shop knew he was a Marine returning home from Iraq. While we drank our coffee, complete strangers came up to him and thanked him for his service to our country and told him how happy they were that he returned home safely. I don't think he was expecting that. It made me feel so good to see him appreciated like that and I know it made him feel good also.