Trip to Southern Illinois - end of August

August 20-23 we visited Dawn's parents in Southern Illinois. On Friday Dawn's brother, Doug, had his send off for his National Guard troop to Afghanistan. Greg Osinga came down from Wisconsin by Amtrak with John. Below we picked them up at the Amtrak station in Carbondale IL.
The send-off ceremony took place in the West Frankfort high school assembly hall. It was a standing room only crowd with the President of Southern Illinois University, a state senator and state congressman in addition to several other officers giving speeches.

The Osingas

The Osinga grandkids (minus Bobby and Jimmy) with Doug and Jody Osinga.