Janet, I understood and felt one drop better right away when you said he was with his fellow Marines. I was saying that to my relatives as well. Thank you for saying your dad was there to greet him. I think my grandmother may have been there also.
My mom gave me a piece of costume jewelry that belonged to my grandmother to wear to the funeral. I wanted her "there" with us. After the funeral, the family went to a restaurant. While I was eating my salad, I bit into something , it turned out to be a plastic stone from the bracelet, it must have fallen out. So, we all feel that my grandmother was sending us a message that he was with her. This bracelet was from the 1930's. Nothing was missing from it, and that exact instant was the time something fell off of it.