Love will be in the air on Sunday

LYNN – Keep your eyes on the sky Sunday afternoon at 12:30 for a message of love being sent from across the world.A Lynn soldier who is stationed in Iraq is sending a surprise heartfelt message of love to his wife on their special day.”She’s what burns inside of me that keeps me warm,” he wrote in an email to The Daily Item. “I just want to turn the flame up a little higher on Sunday. With your help maybe others can feel the fire and warm up. I know it sounds corny but to anybody really in love it really isn’t.”The GI, who can’t be with his wife on their special day, said he couldn’t stand the thought of her spending the significant day alone had to find a way to be with her.”So often I hear people say, I know I can’t be there, but I’ll be there in spirit,” he wrote to The Daily Item. “I actually believe that can be true. I also believe that most people who say it, don’t do anything to be there in spirit. I figured I had to find a way to be there for her. So why not show her that my love does reach all the way around the world.”So the soldier, who described himself as a hopeless romantic and sappy GI, hired an airplane to pull a banner with a declaration of love along Lynn Shore Drive on Sunday afternoon.”Just remember no matter where you are to look up towards the skies over Lynn Harbor, out over the ocean and towards Boston and maybe you’ll see the sign,” he wrote. “I’m hoping that all her friends hear about this and call her after they see the sign. ‘I’m hoping that they tell her that on this, our special day, that she is loved.”But it doesn’t stop there – he is asking everyone who can to pause for a second and make a toast to the young couple, who are worlds away from each other, or to their own loved ones.”I’m hoping that everyone who may not know us, but hears about this, that they too make a toast to love – a toast to us and to each other. Maybe if you know two people in love and they’re apart you’ll toast to them. Most of all I hope that the word gets out so that the whole world, or at least as many as we can reach, will know how much I love her and that my love for her can reach all the way around the world.”The soldier said he hopes the message of love continues long after the banner has disappeared from sight.”If people start calling in to radio stations and emailing their friends and family telling their story about this crazy GI and how they did this corny toast for some GI and his wife that they don’t even know,” he wrote. “It’s going to be awesome.”The Daily Item can’t reveal the soldier’s name or too many details of the event at the risk of spoiling the surprise. The full story will be printed in Monday’s Item and will be posted on www.itemlive.com.