By Tim Kelly
10/20/2011
TIM KELLY PHOTOComing home to Southold after seven months on the front lines in Afghanistan, Marine Staff Sergeant Eddie Deptola expected to be hugged often.
Does it seem Eddie Deptola's sister Laura, third from left is happy to see him. So to are his fiancee Heather and Mom Laura.
But he never, ever guessed he’d receive a big embrace from “Grimace,” the big, purple, fuzzy McDonald’s character.
And yet, as he stood just inside the entrance of the Mattituck McDonald’s Sunday night, that’s exactly what happened.
Knowing his affinity for the fast-food giant’s fare, Sgt. Deptola’s family staged a surprise “welcome home” party at McDonald’s.
For a man who regularly faces enemy fire in a faraway desert, Sgt. Deptola seemed stunned when he walked in with his fiancée, Heather, and children Cassandra, 4, and Edward III, 2, to find a crowd of family members and seats festooned with balloons.
“They got me good,” he said. “They orchestrated that perfectly.”
He’d only recently driven home from the Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
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