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Surprise Homecoming

Sep-23-2009 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

The Daily News-Miner reports on a family that traveled quite a ways to be in Alaska for their soldier's homecoming.

FAIRBANKS -- Every time Janine Jimenez’s cellphone rang, she clutched it tightly, squinched her face and moaned, “I can’t answer it. He doesn’t know we’re here.”

Janine, the wife of returning Stryker Brigade soldier, Sgt. Fabricio Jimenez, traveled to Fairbanks from Miami with their son, Nicholas, 3, and her husband’s mother, Maritza Vasquez, to greet Fabricio.

Janine talked to him earlier in the day, and he thought she was still in Miami. Now it was 11:30 p.m. Miami time, and Janine nervously switched the phone off after not answering four calls in succession from Fabricio.


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