Across The Pond
Rebecca couldn’t deny how hard it was to keep this news to herself. She knew it would change Matthew’s life, so she was eager for him to come home, but then his deployment got extended by another month. The“But then I thought about it for a few minutes, and I was like, ‘You know, this isn’t how I want to tell him – in an email,’” she said. “I emailed him back and said, ‘I just miss your voice.’” USS Carl Vinson had to make a show of force off the coast of North Korea, and the possibility or retaliation was very real. With combat being such a real possibility, Rebecca found herself alone at home, about to do something no one could have predicted.