Covert Operation Engagement
My boyfriend had been in Iraq for over seven months serving in the Marine Corps. We had talked about getting married at some point after he returned but never got into a lot of details about it.
When he returned in the summer of 2004, I decided to go meet him in California where he was stationed. Before I left from our hometown in Idaho, my boyfriend’s mother asked me to come over so she could give me some important papers. She said that I had to guard the papers with my life because they had to do with his military orders.
As I flew to California, I carried the envelope of papers next to me at all times, always checking every few minutes to make sure I still had them. After a joyful and tearful reunion, I gave him the envelope and he was very glad that I took such good care of it. He explained that the papers told him where he would be going next.
After several days of spending time together, we went out to a beautiful dinner on a pier. My boyfriend kept saying how nervous he was all during dinner and I just couldn’t figure out why. After dinner we took a walk on the pier. Before I realized it, he got down on his knee and proposed.
I was so shocked and asked him where and when he got the ring. He said that I had been carrying it with me the whole time, his mother had bought it for him while he was in Iraq and figured the only way he could propose to me in California was if I brought it down myself. We were married two months later and will celebrate our three year anniversary this summer.
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