John is husband to my good friend Laura, and father to my godson Jack and his sister Claire.
John was my first connection to Oklahoma before Ken and I even got married. You see, John was Ken's "second class" at the academy - basically he was the one who kept Ken in line during plebe summer. Somewhere, we have a letter Ken wrote to John during plebe summer which detailed everything he ate at the Orioles game (an enormous amount of food for the then approximately 130-pound Ken.) When Ken arrived in Oklahoma, he said, "You'll never believe who's in my squadron."
I joined Ken a few months later and we became fast friends with John and Laura. And Laura and I were lucky enough that the two guys got on the same deployment schedule. I'm so thankful that John and Ken met during the summer of 1995 and brought Laura and I together six years later.
I am so glad that John and Ken brought us together as well. I don't know where I would be without you. ~Laura
PS - I would just like to mention that I was pregnant, not just fat in the photo for this post.
Posted by: Laura | August 28, 2008 at 09:09 AM