The Verse - Volume 40
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Success Story - Purple Guy Returns from Iraq!

The purple guys are proud to welcome home Mark Solomon, AKA Navy Lieutenant Solomon, from an 11 month deployment to Iraq. Mark returns to us on June 30th to resume his efforts to help the purple guys grow in Kansas City. On a more important note, he returns to his wife, Chasity, and 3 kids. Please join the purple guys in celebrating Mark’s safe return home! NBC Action News covered Mark’s homecoming.

-- KANSAS CITY, Mo. A special welcome home this Memorial Day weekend for a United States Navy Lieutenant. He deployed to Iraq to perform intelligence for the Army last summer. His family faced quite a bit while he was gone. Multi-tasking is on the resume of every military wife. Unfortunately, so is waiting. "I have butterflies. I feel like a little school girl again," Chasity Solomon said.

[Source: NBC Action News.com - VIEW VIDEO]

It's been 11 long months since she has seen her husband. He deployed to Iraq last July.

While he was gone, the mother of three weathered life without him inside their Northland home. Flu infected the family, their son, Jack, broke his leg on the swing set and days later a tornado hit. That May tornado barely nicked their roof but leveled homes only a block away.

"About six o'clock we went outside and it was only then I realized our neighbors had so much damage and how lucky we were," Chasity said. She waited hours before a message reached her husband. "I told him I was mad he wasn't here that we had to go through this and that we had to go through this," Chasity said. The past year the boys have grown. Big sister Megan, 12, chipped in with extra chores. She's looking forward to her math tutor returning. "I wasn't able to have help in homework. I had to pay attention more in school on how to do it," Step-daughter Megan Fogle said. Flight 1527's passengers slowly filed out and then finally he emerged. "Oh, I missed you," cried Chasity. Lieutenant Mark Solomon is back home. "That was the toughest part of the whole thing. My wife had the toughest job out of everybody," Lt. Soloman said.