Dad aids Marine in long-distance proposal

[unhappycamper]

Dad aids Marine in long-distance proposal
By Wendy Isom - The Jackson Sun
Posted : Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 10:13:06 EST

JACKSON, Tenn. — Marine Aaron Blake Davis has been stationed in Iraq since October, but he has been working on another important mission closer to home. Blake, 21, enlisted the help of family and friends to coordinate a long-distance surprise wedding proposal for his girlfriend, 18-year-old Lauren Vaughn.

On Sunday, the mission was carried out at Corky’s restaurant in Jackson.

“A couple months ago, he called and said, ‘Mom, guess what? I’m fixin’ to ask Lauren to marry me,’” said Blake’s mother, Patricia Hampton. He mailed her a gigantic teddy bear wearing a T-shirt that read, “Will you marry me?” But that’s not all he had in store.

He had Lauren pick out the ring she wanted. He enlisted his father, Bill Davis, to pick it up. Lauren thought she would get a ring when Blake came back to the U.S.

But she received the ring surrounded by more than 20 of the couple’s closest family and friends at Corky’s. Sunday was also the first time the couple’s parents met each other.


Rest of article at: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2007/12/ap_marineproposal_071217/

[ChazII]

1. Wishing the couple many years

of happiness.

[liberal N proud]

2. This war has produced so many touching stories such as this

If it wasn't for bu$h's war, this couple might have been forced into a traditional engagement with the groom to be present.


:sarcasm: