I hardly remember this anymore...I was 15 and my best friend from high school (DA) was dating (JG) and Tony was a friend of J's. I don't remember exactly how we realized we were interested in each other but pretty quickly when we realized that, whenever we could, we spent time together. I'm not sure if I knew the living situation for him at the time. I believe he was in a foster home in the same town that J lived in (I'm trying to keep identifying information out of this). He would have been 6 months past 18. I believe his foster home let him live there as long as he needed to get on his feet. His plan was to join the army through the delayed entry program and he did leave pretty quickly after we met, I'm guessing a month or so. The official date we started dating was 9/20/1984.
I remember feeling pretty dramatic about his leaving. I'm not sure if I knew that he was going or not. I think I might have known just before he left, he was going to try and get out of it but in the end, he called me from a motel where he was going to be staying before they shipped him to Fort Leonard wood, Missouri or it could be Fort Lee, Virginia. He had basic training at one and then AIT (advanced individual training) at the other. He was able to come home between the training for Christmas break.
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