Kan. reservist returns for birth of 8th child

[unhappycamper]

Kan. reservist returns for birth of 8th child
By Alexander Parker - Lawrence Journal-World
Posted : Saturday May 17, 2008 16:35:33 EDT

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Eight is enough.

It’s enough children for Travis and Stacy Cecil. And, for Travis, eight months was long enough — maybe too long — to be in Iraq while his wife was pregnant.

So when the Army reservist received word that he was being granted emergency leave from his deployment in the Anbar province to join Stacy for the birth of their daughter, Travis couldn’t get home fast enough.

“The whole time you’re like, ‘Let’s go, let’s go, let’s refuel and let’s go,’ because I’ve got somewhere to be, I’ve got family to go to,” said Travis, 31.

He returned to the U.S. on April 15, an agonizing week after he heard he would be coming home. Three weeks later, on April 27, Stacy, 41, gave birth to a daughter they named Freedom Rayne. She was born three weeks premature and is wrapped in a pink blanket because she has trouble retaining body heat.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/05/ap_kansasreservist_051708/

[bean fidhleir]

1. How kind of our rulers. But that's the kind of "emergency" they like: production of

another little fodder-unit.

There oughta be a law.

[boobooday]

2. Eight children!

I'm exhausted just thinking about it.