We Are Family!

There is a story about an Army sergeant’s transfer to a base where housing was at a premium. When the order arrived, the decision was made that the family should stay together …

Upon their arrival they checked into a motel and began to look everywhere in the immediate area for a place to live — a house or an apartment — with no success. The situation began to seem hopeless, but there was never a suggestion that the wife and children should return to the home they had moved from, halfway across the United States. They were a family and they were going to stay together, whatever the housing problem. Finally, after a few weeks of fruitless searching, the mother proposed a solution: “I spoke with the motel manager today,” she said, “and he told me that he has one large unit that has a kitchen. He’s willing to rent it to us. It’s small, but we’ll make it work. I arranged to help…