Grandchildren are the elixir of life. Their voices on the phone and their e-mail messages are magical, transforming a rainy day into one of glorious sunshine. ...more

March 11, 2009

SEBRING — Every other night Savanna Weirick packs all her favorite things in a stroller and tells her grandparents she is going to Iraq to visit her parents. "She has a great imagination," said her grandma, Judy Kelly, as she watched her granddaughter play in the living room of her Sebring home. Judy and her husband, Mike Kelly, or Nana and Papa as Savanna calls them, have been taking care of the 2-year-old since September when her parents, Army Spc. Kairee and Sgt. John Weirick, were deployed to Iraq. Pictures of her parents in uniform are displayed throughout the house on top of the television, on the refrigerator and even printed on pillows on the couch. ...more

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