The experience was relaxing for what the Georgia National Guardsman didn’t have to do. He didn’t have to man a machine gun atop a Humvee or keep his head on a swivel for insurgents and roadside bombs as he did during his yearlong deployment in Afghanistan.
Tuesday was Smith’s first day back in Georgia. And he was checking things off his list. After Wal-Mart, lunch with Kimberly was next. They grabbed a booth in the corner of a Chili’s here and had some strawberry lemonade, cheeseburger sliders, fried shrimp and grilled chicken. He talked about all the other things on his list: his wife’s homemade peach cobbler, red velvet cake and apple pie.
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