| Article: | Every day Jake Hausman is in Iraq his aunt ties a ribbon to her tree that's become a sea of yellow Everything is ready for Jake Hausman to return. He has a car that he has never driven, a family ready to hug him and trees full of yellow ribbons to cut off.
Spc. Hausman joined the Army even before he turned 18, during a time when war was imminent, and has spent the last 177 days in and around Mosul in northern Iraq.
For every day he is gone, his aunt, Teresa Hausman, ties another yellow ribbon on the trees in her front yard. |