FRANK VAUGHN “A Soldier’s Life”

I did two things this morning I don’t like doing. First, I woke up.
Anyone who knows me also knows I’m not a morning person at all. I half-jokingly tell people my biological day-clock is canted about 8 hours to the right of most everyone else. The second thing? I went for a run this morning. At 6 a.m. Yeah. ME.

I went to the Defense Information School at Fort Meade, Md., last year to train in Army Public Affairs as a print and photojournalist. Basically, I was learning how to write articles and take photographs in order to tell the story of soldiers as they defend our country against “all enemies, foreign and domestic.” I was there three months, which meant that I missed about a third of Gloria’s very first pregnancy. I am thankful that I was home in time for the birth of Zachary Neal Vaughn on Sept. 5.