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Author Explains Culture for Fellow Military Brats
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| Samantha L. Quigley
Posted on 04/25/2006 6:31:15 PM PDT by SandRat
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posted on
04/25/2006 6:31:20 PM PDT
by
SandRat
To: 2LT Radix jr; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; 80 Square Miles; A Ruckus of Dogs; acad1228; AirForceMom; ..
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posted on
04/25/2006 6:31:45 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: SandRat
Wertsch, who wrote "Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress," lived in 20 houses and attended 12 schools during her father's career as an Army infantryman. I got her beat. I am a military brat from a broken home: 21 schools before graduating high school.
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posted on
04/25/2006 6:42:37 PM PDT
by
Lunatic Fringe
(http://ntxsolutions.com)
To: SandRat
This is old news. She is describing what is more properly called
Third Culture Kids. This is a child who spends a significant part of his/her growing up years in a culture outside of the parents' culture of origin. Kids who fall into this category are international businessmen's kids, state department kids and missionary kids, just to name the obvious. These kids carry part of their home culture with them and part of the guest culture with them but don't really fit in either. Refer to the work of Ruth Van Renken and Dave Pollock for more information.
I just watched my daughter, a TCK herself, instantly bond with another TCK. Neither girl had seen each other before; they had grown up on different continents. But there were more jokes, shared experiences and understood implications that my daughter has experienced so far since she's come back to the States to college.
Being a TCK isn't bad. It is just different.
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posted on
04/25/2006 6:48:28 PM PDT
by
Jemian
(PAM of JT!)
To: SandRat
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posted on
04/25/2006 6:49:00 PM PDT
by
Drango
(No electrons were harmed in this posting. Several however, were inconvenienced.)
To: SandRat
I'm not in the Army anymore. But I had always told myself that I would never get married and start a family until after I got out. I saw waaaaayyyy too many screwed up marriages, and messed up kids in the years I was in to ever want to bring that on myself.
Not saying that everyone was like that, but the bad certainly did seem to outweigh and outnumber the good.
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posted on
04/25/2006 6:50:28 PM PDT
by
frankiep
To: SandRat
If I can bump for a group that is providing ministry work to military Brats
http://www.mcym.org
It is a combination of Young Life, Youth for Christ and National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministries! Truly nondenominational. Send 'em a buck if that is where God is leading you to.
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posted on
04/25/2006 6:58:43 PM PDT
by
Drango
(No electrons were harmed in this posting. Several however, were inconvenienced.)
To: Drango
His hand has led me to work with the Boy Scouts to help 1800 youth in this county. A large number come from the miltary base nearby.
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posted on
04/25/2006 7:04:38 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: SandRat
I love it!
I am going to buy the book.
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posted on
04/25/2006 7:07:58 PM PDT
by
Scribbz
(Navy brat and proud!)
To: frankiep
Wow, my family must have been an anomoly. My dad was a lifer (Air Force) and he and my Mom had a happy marriage for 50 years, til she died, and 3 out of 4 of us have lived normal lives (2 with long term marriages and normal kids--one not married). I consider us pretty normal. Except of course we lived in places other than the US and moved alot. When I was a kid, I didn't like it (moving) but now I realize it gave me a much bigger world view. And of course it taught me that not everyone's behavior can be predicted on what I or people like me would do.
susie
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posted on
04/25/2006 7:17:06 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: SandRat
Brats Unite!
Looks as if I'll have to check this book out...
To: SandRat
Ah, well, I'm a Guard brat. Lived in the same county virtually all my life and still do.
5 of 6 kids went into the military and 4 of us are still in. Best of both worlds, I guess. It's been great to us.
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posted on
04/25/2006 7:44:15 PM PDT
by
ODC-GIRL
(Proudly serving our Nation's Homeland Defense)
To: Lunatic Fringe
I got her beat. I am a military brat from a broken home: 21 schools before graduating high school. You got me beat big time. I went to 13 different schools before graduation. My folks marriage had many rocky moments but they toughed it out and will celebrate their 43rd wedding anniversary this Thursday. It was rough always being the new kid in school, I spent a lot of time in the Principles office, got in more fights than I could count but I wouldn't change it even if I could. I saw more of the world and lived more before 16 than most folks do in their entire life.
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posted on
04/25/2006 7:45:37 PM PDT
by
SunTzuWu
(Hans Delbruck - Scientist and Saint.)
To: SandRat
Yup...Military Brat and Proud of It!
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posted on
04/25/2006 7:59:15 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
To: SunTzuWu
Yup...I traveled all the way around the world once by the time I was 13...:)
My dad was an alcoholic (completely functional...didn't drink at work, and it didn't affect his work, but when he got home each night he would just drink himself down. He was never mean or physical, he just got really drunk and quiet.)
He and my mom had tough times, but they stuck together, and eventually my dad quit alcohol after he had been retired for 13 years, then they finally enjoyed the fruits of a relationship they never could before. It was wonderful to see. He had a stroke a few years back and passed on. I love him, and I miss him so. But I go down to Arlington to see him now and again...:)
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posted on
04/25/2006 8:05:14 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
To: Lunatic Fringe
I changed schools 23 times, but only went to 19 schools.
Went to school in Pearl City, Hawaii for 7 days, and in Aurora, MN for 9 days.
A semester each in kindergarten, 3rd, and 6th in Camp Pendleton.
My sister and I both graduated at 17. (She has a 4.0 cum college avg.)
After Dad retired my younger siblings went to school in the same area for over a decade. Neither graduated, although my brother eventually had a 4.0 in Electronic Engineering for two years before his accident and coma.
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posted on
04/25/2006 8:17:50 PM PDT
by
opbuzz
(Right way, wrong way, Marine way)
To: SandRat
Any former military brats calling for Rummy's resignation yet?
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posted on
04/25/2006 8:36:27 PM PDT
by
FDNYRHEROES
(Always bring a liberal to a gunfight)
To: SandRat
BTDT. Please add me to your ping list. Proud Army brat.
To: FDNYRHEROES
LMBO! I'm darn sure not.
I'm sure the Old Media would be trumpeting it, if any were.
To: SandRat
Air Force Brat ping!
Anyone here an alum of Bolling Field, Casablanca, Erding, or Plattsburgh?
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posted on
04/25/2006 10:16:37 PM PDT
by
kitchen
(Over gunned? Hell, that's better than the alternative!)
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