May 14, 2007
Kiss The Baby for Me Many of Dr. Forrest’s later letters ended with this salutation: kiss the baby for me. He was traveling and rather than spend money to call home, he wrote letters—letters that talked about how God was using him, but most of all about how much he missed his wife, family, and the college. The above phrase was written as a term of endearment for Kelly and Alice Barnes’s daughter, whom he viewed as a granddaughter. However, there was much more to this “family man.†Once after filling out paperwork for a passport, officials questioned an entry