Lane DeGregory: Sundays are the hardest, Laura Houk says. That was always their day. "Family Day," her husband called it.
They'd take the kids to church, then come home and he'd fire up the grill. Eric made great ribs. And marinated chicken. "If you ate one bite," his 9-year-old son says, "your mouth would go right to heaven."
Sunday nights, they'd all pile on the big couch and Eric would surf the TV channels until he found a rerun of M*A*S*H. His boys love the show too. Except for that one episode, the one when Col. Henry Blake finally gets to leave Korea, but his plane crashes and he never makes it home.
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