Marine’s widow, baby to start new life in Tennessee

[unhappycamper]

"Mikey" Ferschke's mom, Hotaru, and grandparents, Robin and Michael, share a special moment following a memorial service for Marine Sgt. Michael H. Ferschke Jr, Friday on Camp Schwab. Mikey and his mom will travel back to live with his grandparents in Maryville, Tenn., on Friday.


Marine’s widow, baby to start new life in Tennessee
By David Allen, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Tuesday, February 24, 2009

CAMP SCHWAB, Okinawa — For Mikey and his mom, the journey is almost over.

Or is it just beginning?

On Friday, Hotaru Ferschke, the Okinawa widow of a Marine killed in Iraq last summer, and Michael H. Ferschke III, the son he never saw, will fly to Maryville, Tenn., to start their new life.

After a memorial service for Sgt. Michael H. Ferschke Jr., 22, at the base chapel last Friday, Mikey, as the family is calling him, gurgled peacefully and stared up at his mother and grandparents as they expressed their excitement — and apprehension — about the 6-week-old baby’s future.

"This whole trip has been a little bit of everything — beautiful, touching, emotional, heart-rending, happy and terribly sad," said Robin Ferschke, Mikey’s grandmother.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=60917

[marylanddem]

1. Will Bush ever be made to answer for these lost lives?

We get joking stories about his visit to a hardware store that offered him a job. Meanwhile, these widows, orphans and lost lives are his legacy.