A Year Ago

This was a year ago, on the 23, when my oldest son arrived home from New Orleans after spending a month down there working in the aftermath of Katrina. He met me as I got home from work. I didn't even know my wife had taken that picture of him and me until people started asking me about him because they had gotten an email she sent out with this picture in it. It was such a relief when he finally got home safely after all the troubles he had to got through. He was clean-shaven when he left, but really looked different when he got back, with a goatee and tan and wearing a cap, which he never used to do but has since.