A Virtual Homecoming

Marine Sergeant John Davidson of the 297th CTC, has been stationed in the war zone in Western Iraq for 9 months, but thanks to the virtual magic of internet technology he saw and interacted with his month-old daughter on Monday, Oct. 10th in the Alabama Cooperative Extension System

The reunion was made possible via a videoconferencing link over the Freedom Calls network from the Freedom Calls facility at Al Asad, a base near the Syrian border in Iraq. SGT Davidson chatted with his wife, Tunitha Davidson, and his oldest daughter Reneshia for the first time in several months from a 6-foot screen.

The couple