Kerri Younkin: “In 2012, my husband was deployed the whole year and he was supposed to come back in January, but he came home December 22. So, my older two kids were wrestling at Susquehannock, and they had a meet that day. We were at the meet and I got a phone call that he was going to be at the airport and that I needed to get there. The boys were supposed to wrestle, so I told the coach, the boys didn’t know. And I said, ‘You need to get here now, you’re off the mat? Go, go, go.’ And they were like, ‘What’s going on?’ And I was like, ‘Get in the car.’ And they had no idea that dad was coming in that day. That was the most memorable for me.” Photo by Kyle Billings
Kerri Younkin, Science Teacher: “In 2012, my husband was deployed the whole year and he was supposed to come back in January, but he came home December 22. So, my older two kids were wrestling at Susquehannock, and they had a meet that day. We were at the meet and I got a phone call that he was going to be at the airport and that I needed to get there. The boys were supposed to wrestle, so I told the coach, the boys didn’t know. And I said, ‘You need to get here now, you’re off the mat? Go, go, go.’ And they were like, ‘What’s going on?’ And I was like, ‘Get in the car.’ And they had no idea that dad was coming in that day. That was the most memorable for me.” Photograph by Kyle Billings