I wanted to post a snippet of the winning post from last month's contest. Kirsten wrote in on how she and her fiance, Gary, met while serving our country! Congrats again you two...we look forward to your May Wedding!!
Gary and I met while we were both stationed in Korea, June 2006. He was based at Camp Casey, a 2-hour train ride from where I was stationed in Seoul. We met at a bar downtown, and while I thought he was quite the charming southern gentleman, I wasn’t really interested. For 6 months, he called every couple weeks to see if I wanted to meet up, or emailed just to see what I’d been up to, and finally in January 2007, we met in person again. This time, sparks flew! The night of our first date, I knew in my heart that he was the man I was supposed to marry. Since Gary is Army, he had to spend weeks at a time in the field, so on days when he’d be back at Camp Casey for a few hours, I would make the 2-hour trip up there just to bring him brownies and eat lunch with him before making the 2-hour trip back.