Thomas

One of the qualities that attracted my husband to be was his work ethic. For those of you that don't know, Thomas and I met on-line....risky, yes but the one of the things he was proud of was his job. A civilian Navy employee came to North Dakota State University and recruited Tom straight from College to go and work for the Navy!! Thomas worked long and hard hours for 10 years and I was so proud of what he had accomplished. We were married not even 3 months and Thomas came home and asked how I felt about going overseas. I thought it was awesome but to be honest, I never thought it was going to happen. 3 months later, we were on our way to Germany and Thomas started working for the Army. We both learned a lot during our time overseas and once again, I was proud of him and his accomplishments. Then we moved to to Minnesota and my husband has worked harder and longer hours that he has ever done before. I'll wake up at 2 in the morning and he'll be answering email, more then anything I would love for him to come to bed but his job is the help our soldiers and if I have to sacrifice my time with Thomas so he can help out our soldiers, I'm okay with that. Now Thomas has hit another big mild-stone in his career, two weeks ago we received the news that Thomas was selected on the Engineering Officer at Ft. McCoy, WI. Thomas is only the 3rd civilian to be hired to start at the new location. I'm so proud of him!! So, this move is going to be crazy but I know this is where we are meant to be! So, Mr. Helgeson....I love you so very much. Thank you for all you do here at home and for our soldiers both in the US and overseas.