
Pete & I met in February of 2003 at Art's Jug in Watertown, NY. I was up at Ft. Drum from Buffalo that weekend for a mission with my National Guard unit. A friend of mine from the unit was dating a young man named Mike, who worked with Pete, and we all decided to go to dinner that Friday evening. Mike called Pete and asked him to meet us out, but Pete was tired after a long week at work, and said he was just going to go home. After a lot of begging, Pete finally agreed to meet us at Art's Jug, and ended up sitting next to me at the table. We began to talk, he asked for my phone number, and took me out for dinner the next evening at Watertown's most romantic restaurant- Denny's. We had a great time, and have been together ever since.




