Posted on 08/10/2011 5:59:29 AM PDT by wyowolf
(CNN) -- A week ago, 10-year-old Braydon Nichols started to think about his dad and how much he missed him.
Army Chief Warrant Officer Bryan Nichols, a helicopter pilot, had been deployed for two months in Afghanistan.
The little boy, in the car with his mother running errands, brushed back his dirty-blond hair and ran his hand over his cheek.
Jessica Nichols looked over when she heard sniffles. Her son was crying.
"When is Dad coming back so we go camping?" he asked her.
Soon, she assured him. "Your dad is off fighting for this country."
The boy replied, "As soon as he gets home, we're going to go on a camping trip, just me and him."
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“Put silver wings, on my Sons chest. Man him one of Americas best”...
This past weekends shoot down just tore me up! Im just sick and mad at this whole thing.
Oh geez. What a terrible thing for that poor little boy. I hope the country truly appreciates the sacrifice his dad made...and the sacrifice he made as well. These stories just tear me up...
I know several military families, a fair number of them are divorced. Its sadly part of the life of the military.
amen...
Ugh, this story breaks my heart. I post this not as a military wife, but as a person who lost her mother at age 7. I hope that this little boy knows how proud of him his dad would be and how brave he was. My heart truly goes out to him.
Please recall that we are NOT in Afghanistan for the Afghanis. That hellhole was a petri dish that nurtured the jihadists who want to kill us all.
Our mission is to disrupt and deny the enemy that safe haven. Can our military do it? Doubtful, but we owe them deep gratitude for progress made, at great cost.
Just remember that Afghanistan is a place filled with ignorance, poverty, brutality and terror which was being exported to harm the civilized world. We may not have stopped it, but we have disrupted it.
We are not fighting this battle for the people of Afghanistan, although some may have benefited, but for the safety of our people who are targeted by the evil in those mountains.
Please recognize and thank these men and women for what they’ve been able to do. Our problem is in Washington, not in camo.
I was myself, Daddy’s girl. I was Ga Ga about my Dad.
Also, I have a brother... and I can tell you that something VERY special and NECESSARY goes on between Dad and son.
I could personally slap the sh^% out of every single woman I see who is stupid and arrogant enough to think she doesn’t need a husband to raise children or who actually perfers to raise a child/children on her own.
FIE!
“Bring them home.Enough American blood has been spilled for animals that will only turn on us like rabid dogs.”
Agreed. I would say the same about the hostile EU and South Korea as well.
None of these people are worth any of ours. They never were.
The husband was an alcoholic, womanizer. Preferred to go to the bars and party with his friends than to attend events for his children. While he spent thousands of dollars entertaining himself and friends, the kids needed shoes. Once took the kids to a bar and proceeded to get into a fight there, the police came, while the children watched.
If that makes a woman stupid and arrogant to try to protect her children from thinking this was an appropriate lifestyle for them to witness, then I am speechless.
God's mercy on them.
You have no idea what I am talking about. Or you CHOSE to misunderstand.
I am talking about the entire class of young women (that I see constantly) who are irresponsible about child bearing, bore children early and probably left school to do it, were never married, never intend to BE married, wouldn’t marry if they could, PLAN TO... CONTINUE TO REPRODUCE, etc....and who I SUPPORT!!!
Got it??
Dont get me wrong, I am NOT criticizing the military! But we have no policy there! I am tired of seeing good men die for no real reason. In the meantime we are giving BILLIONS of dollars to the Pakis who will bite us in the @ss first chance they get. Afghan was and always be a hellhole... even after we leave.
They got stationed in Hawaii. Six months later, she moved back to Georgia and they are getting divorced. It's all too common. Too young and unprepared.
Agreed. It will be a hellhole. I just have no problem with keeping it a local hellhole rather than letting it fester and export its misery to our shores.
If I had my way, I’d cut off ALL foreign aid. Can’t see why we should be supporting any other nation when we need the money ourselves.
That said, I’m also for a continued military presence in both Iraq and Afghanistan, not for the people there but simply as a preventive measure so they don’t go viral and start once again exporting their malignancy.
Terrible mixing of metaphors. Sorry.
Your original comment was fairly vague and did not include these “qualifiers”. Hopefully you have similar disdain for the men who father the children.
“... perfers to raise a child/children on her own.”
Note the word PREFERS
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