Looking at the pictures, we could think that those people are sleeping in a gymnasium because of a disaster but no, there is another reason for that. All those people are parents of new university students. They’re sleeping there to ease the ‘difficult’ separation of the first night far from them, normally… Of course, it’s for the poor parents, rich ones can go to hostels.
The supercarrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower with six thousand seamen on board docked in Norfolk after a five-month deployment in the Middle East. The seamen were impatiently awaited by their families and friends. Touching pictures of their reunion after a long separation are waiting for you after the jump.