Sailors are, after all, people.
Like their land-locked cousins, they walk, talk, drive, eat, sleep, work, play, and in time, find a mate, get married, settle down and raise a family. There is nothing very settled down about the separation imposed by long deployments at sea. During their absence, it is the families who have had the responsibility of keeping the home fires burning. But, after enduring each period of separation, there has always been a happy ending as their sailors return from the sea. The Navy Family bronze relief was fully sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Fleet Reserve Association.