 She says, the Marine Corps is your wife, I'm your mistress. That's how she views it. That's how she lives day to day. That's how she gets to it. I don't think there's any words to describe it. You know, you look at 50 years, half a century, so much time, and where did the time go? I like to consider it as like a World War II wedding. So I was about to go to TBS, War and Officer Basics course, and he was about to go off to Iraq. We decided instead we didn't have the time to do a wedding. We didn't have the time to do anything big. We did it at the first house we bought together, and we just had very close family and close friends, maybe about 20 people. I got dressed up in a wedding gown, my husband got dressed up in a tuxedo, we got married in our house. Serving by him, it was great. He kept me grounded. So for me, it was an honor and it was the God sending many ways that he kept me balanced. Always proud to say that my wife's a Marine. Always proud of her accomplishments and what she does, and when people talk about her and realizing, oh, that's his wife, she's just, she's one of a kind in so many ways. She's smart, communicates well, probably the most patient woman I've ever met, stubborn, driven when she needs to be. I find balance with her. It's funny. I just, I think I told her the other day, I feel normal when I'm around you. I feel normal. I feel, okay, I'm in place, I feel normal when I'm around her. He's very determined in anything he does. He was determined to be the best Marine and he took that very seriously. It definitely helped me a lot of times to continue to put on my uniform and do what I had to do because of how well he did it and how he reflected that. Kind of flipped the script over the years. She probably doesn't know this, but she's more of a mentor to me than I think I am to her these days. I've always felt goosebumps with the Marines, him. And for a while there I was like, I'm going to stay in as long as I feel those goosebumps. And I realized that it isn't going to leave me. It's always going to be with me.