Posted on 10/10/2017 9:07:33 PM PDT by Romans Nine
Today years of home schooling and teaching honor, duty and love for country came to fruition. My two oldest sons Marshall (19) and Mitchell (18) left for MCRD San Diego. These are two fine young Christian men who have never gave their mother or I any real trouble or grief. They have never so much as back talked us. It was a proud moment for us as we watched them take the oath to protect the Constitution of the United States. Neither of them were looking for a career they just wanted to do what they felt was a duty to this still great Republc we are blessed to live in. The oldest has worked for me for several years as a heavy equipment mechanic and the younger as a machinist for a year. Both finished homeschooling at 17. They wanted to go infantry and held out to get that before signing.
My prayer is that they would fulfill their duty as given in Colossians 3:17 to do everything as unto the Lord.
Thank you for raising fine young Americans. Please pass my thanks for their bravery and service, and my prayers for their safety and well-being. ^/\^
God bless them both, and may He bring them home to you safe when their device is eventually over. The training and discipline will make them even finer individuals. You should be very proud.
Congratulations! I know the feeling from personal experience, and I hope you are (justifiably) proud of having raised your children so successfully.
Semper Fi!
My sincere best wishes and Thanks to you and the wife for their upbringing.
PROUD PARENTS INDEED.
Good job raising good young men, and congratulations.
I am retired USAF myself. In December my son heads to Lackland AFB, TX, for Air Force Officer Training School, then off to undergraduate pilot training. He wants to fly either C-130J, C-5B, C-17, C-21, or KC-10. I hope he does well too, since the Air Force is 1,500 pilots short. At first, he wanted to be a nuclear weapons maintenance officer, but decided he would rather be a pilot.
I can feel your righteous pride all the way over here, Mark.
Congratulations
Neither of my sons showed any interest in the military, but I am pleased as all get out that they are two of the hardest working rednecks I’ve ever seen.
I can feel your righteous pride all the way over here, Romans Nine.
Congratulations
Congrats to you and your boys! My son just enlisted in the USMC yesterday and ships in July. Hard to believe how fast our kids grow up.
© Theresa Kackley
He stands tall
He stands proud
In a foreign country
Among a foreign crowd
He leaves his family
He leaves his home
To fight for our rights
A new land he'll roam
He agrees to sacrifice
For his Country and God
All that he knows
With barely a nod
He withstands the heat
Death and despair
So we may carry on
With little a care
His days are long
His responsibilities many
But when asked what he needs
He says "I don't need any"
To hear his voice
To see his face
Any time
Any place
These are times
I treasure most
Before he has
To return to his post
The quick hello
That all-knowing smile
This man before me
Going the extra mile
Counting the days
Until his return
Each and every hour
I wish to burn
My Love for him
From the very start
Filled every depth
Of my heart
He's one of the best
And second to none
He is a Marine
HE IS MY SON
My thanks to them, and may they be blessed in their good service.
Not all of what we see from the media about our military forces is true. Our military forces have ways of dealing well enough with social problems handed to them by anti-defense, anti-American civilians.
Thank you for raising such wonderful children
Thank God we still have Marines! as someone else once reportedly said. I thank God we still have Christians in our secular State in need of salt,and light.
God bless you and your family!
God Bless your sons for their service and you for raising patriots!
Gives me hope, makes me think all cannot be lost yet. God Bless your young men, and watch over them as they serve.
I have had this same experience. I know how you are feeling. I shed tears of both pride and worry.
May your sons continue to be the grateful, patriotic men that you raised. Mine did.
May God guide, bless and protect your brave sons. God bless you and your family.
I guess they passed the physical. They could put their head in a jar.
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