Staff Sgt. Kevin Waters, 45th Civil Engineer fuels and water maintenance technician, was faced with a difficult situation that anyone could find themselves in just this past year.
He was returning to Florida after a family vacation in Texas with his wife, his 3-year-old and 8-month-old sons.
“We generally only plan a vacation financially for once a year,” said Waters. “One week after returning to the base, we were notified that my wife’s mother had passed away.”
Waters’ mother-in-law had been battling a few terminal medical conditions for the past five years, and every year they had made an effort to visit her when they took their family vacations to Texas. Waters and his wife have known each other since grade school, and the loss of his mother-in-law hit him hard.
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