(The Blaze) Last week, a retiring U.S. Marine got the surprise of his life — and a fitting one for a 21-year military veteran.
Master Sergeant Jacinto Bernardo, an Iraq war veteran who recently retired after serving 21 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, asked his old Marine buddy Jeremy Epperson to watch his new home in Suisun, California, while he was stationed in Japan with his family. The home was a "major" fixer-upper because it was all the Bernardo family could afford.
Epperson gladly agreed to watch his Marine brother's home, though he had much bigger plans in mind.