BABY BEATS PLANE SOLDIER'S SON BORN JUST IN TIME.Byline: Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Darvish Staff Writer VALENCIA Valencia, region, Spain Valencia (välān`thēä), autonomous region (1990 pop. 3,902,429) and former kingdom, E Spain, on the Mediterranean. It now comprises the provinces of Alicante, Castellón, and Valencia. - The U.S. Army had its reasons for rescheduling soldier Will Wise's brief visit home, and, well, who knows why his son decided to enter the world two weeks early? But shortly after 12:30 p.m. Tuesday - just hours before his 24-year-old father was to board a plane back to Iraq - 6-pound, 6-ounce Tyler Wise was born at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital to his mother, Jaimee Wise. ``It's the greatest feeling in the world - to be here to see the birth of our baby,'' said Will Wise, who is serving in Iraq with C Company of the Army's 113th Armored. ``It's going to be that much harder to get on that plane tonight.'' Jaimee Wise, who graduated from Saugus High in 1996, didn't know she was pregnant when her husband was sent to Iraq in April - the last time she saw him until two weeks ago. Wise was supposed to return home at Christmas, but the Army moved up his leave date. Doctors set the baby's due date for Dec. 21, which left a very slim chance Noun 1. slim chance - little or no chance of success fat chance probability, chance - a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible; "the probability that an that the Utah native would get to see the birth of his baby. Jaimee's mother, Jolene Smith, said she felt helpless as her son-in-law's return to Iraq drew closer. ``I just had this emptiness when we didn't think he would be here,'' Smith said. ``When it all happened and he was here, I was just so happy. It's the way it should be.'' To keep his memory fresh before his next scheduled visit home in April, the new dad snapped digital photos of his son Tuesday before reporting for duty. His wife, looking rested after a four-hour labor, said the timing of her son's delivery and her husband's homecoming Homecoming Odyssey concerning Odysseus’s difficulties in getting home after war. [Gk. Myth.: Odyssey] You Can’t Go Home Again revisiting his home town, a writer is disillusioned by what he sees. [Am. Lit. was meant to be. ``He got to come home earlier than planned, and the baby decided to come early, too,'' she said. ``It's amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. .'' Amy Raisin Darvish, (661) 257-5254E-mail amy.raisin(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour SAC Sac: see Sac and Fox. SAC - 1. An early system on the Datatron 200 series. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. edition only) Will Wise, a soldier, enjoys moments with his wife and 3-hour-old son, born at the end of his dad's leave from Iraq duty. David R. Crane/Staff Photographer |
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