When I pulled into the parking lot of the bar, some of the guys were in the lot and began to cheer. I parked the bike and was immediately surrounded b... my friends. No that is not right, they greeted me like the brothers that they are. We had all made it through at least two, most of us three, deployments in Afghanistan where we had each other’s backs day and night.We were all in a transport battalion and my closest friends were the guys that rode together with me in the first Hummer in the. Earl also noticed that she wasn't wearing her wedding rings tonight. He felt uncomfortable about the lack of the symbolic none presents of her wedding band more than anything tonight.Earl sat back down on his stool and reached around with his right hand and felt his wedding band which hadn't left his finger since their separation begun. Earl then turned around on his stool and glanced toward the dark area of the huge club trying to look over the group of people out on the dance floor. All Earl. ‘Okay, see the small animals on the skirt, they match the small animals on the top.’ Anne was pointing it out to Don. ‘So all I have to do is get the animals to be the same and the clothes match?’ Don asked. ‘That’s it!’ Anne replied with a smile. They had been shopping for most of the day and Don was finally figuring it out. He was learning the ways of kids clothing and they had filled his SUV with clothes and school supplies. Grace was having the time of her life trying on outfits and picking. ”“Shirley?” Dad said, inviting her response.“No. We’re not buying you a car. That’s the end of it.”“Mother, you wouldn’t be buying me anything. I already have the money to pay for a car. It’s like I said, I’ll buy the car and pay for gas and insurance.”“Where did you get money to buy a car? Answer me that!” she demanded.“From the lawsuit three years ago, remember?”“That’s for college. You can’t have that.”Mom was really pissing me off, because even after three years, she still thought of that.