Deployed Booker feels Huskers' love
If the bushel basket filled with red mums outside Jessie and Dion Booker's home in Manhattan, Kan., doesn't offer a clue, then surely the lawn flags, assorted ornaments in the yard and giant piece of corn, adorned with glitter and a red "N" on the front door, answer any questions about the loyalty of those who live inside.
Dion, a former part-time starting Nebraska safety on the Huskers' most recent conference-title-winning football team in 1999, is a half a world away, five months into a deployment that may stretch three years at Camp Carroll Army Base near Daegu, South Korea.
Three days after he married Jessie in 2008, Dion left his wife and their 6-year-old daughter, Kaia, for 13 months of training. He served a year in Afghanistan before a stay at home preceded more training in Virginia, then the assignment in South Korea.
