John Bratton Makes the Newspaper

September 12, 2007

Johnathon has made the paper! He leaves for Iraq sometime in January after the training that is required. His unit is the 875th. Angela and Garrie are giving him a party this Saturday. Angela was getting things ready for this weekend and has sprained her foot and/or possibly broken it. John will leave for Little Rock for the first round of training this month. He sure has come a long way from that little boy catching salamanders, and wrecking 3 wheelers! We love you John.

Mrs. Butler told me a story about John and his girlfriend Katherine. She told me that something very special happened while he and Katherine were on a date in Jonesboro this weekend. I automatically thought that (the way Mrs. Butler was talking) John proposed... Nicole thought the same thing. If you know Mrs. Butler, you all know that she started the story off this way...."Something special happened with John and Katherine while they were eating in Jonesboro. But I better not say anything..." So now you know why I thought what I did....

Anyway...When John (he was dressed in uniform) and Katherine got ready to leave the restaurant and pay the bill the waitress came over and told John that an anonymous person paid for their meal. John and Katherine then go to the movies and get to the ticket box and find that their way had been paid. Support for our troops come in many different ways. I thought that was very, very nice. ...John is leaving for real, no jokes...

Did any of you see Sally Fields on the Emmys the other night? Her statement was this..."If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any blank wars."