Tom and Debbie Putnam have lived a lifetime of service, faith, and steadfast devotion to both their country and each other. Their story begins not behind the walls of Cold War Berlin, but in the neighborhoods of Dayton, Ohio, where two high school sweethearts first shared dreams of a future together. Those dreams would soon lead them halfway around the world, to one of the most heavily guarded cities on earth, where freedom and tyranny met face to face across concrete and barbed wire.

Both Tom and Debbie were raised in families that understood the meaning of sacrifice. “Our fathers and our uncles served in the military during World War II,” Tom recalled. “We grew up hearing the stories and admiring the courage and sacrifice it took them in fighting the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese so t

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