Posted on 10/17/2012 6:41:14 PM PDT by Badabing Badablonde
Thank you and I hope you are right.
We have a similar story in my family. My 18-year-old son enlisted in the US Marine Corps in July and is going to Parris Island on January 14. He’s wanted to do this since he was very little. I am enormously proud of him that he has overcome some real disadvantages and heartbreaking setbacks to reach this point. God bless you and your boy, and may the Lord in His providence keep our kids safe from the Evil One.
You’re a great mom. I was a single mom, too, with 2 boys. Both my boys have done very well in spite of an absent father. Thank you for your son’s service. I will pray for you and both your kids, for their safety, their joy, and His blesssings on their lives. You, too. Regards.
After basic he'll very likely start to figure out how things work but he must still always strive to keep his nose clean.I can't give any feedback regarding his possible deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan because I was never deployed to a combat theater.
My son finished all his requirements as a firefighter with our community. He began two years ago as a jr and earned six college credits that apply to homeschooling too. I had to read every word of the text to him, auditory processer, and learned more than I ever wanted to know about firefighting.
But now he is a community fireman, at age 17. He is also taking heavy equipment and CDL courses, has leaned to tile and brick. Our sons are such blessings and parenting a son is a different kind of courage.
Blessing to you both.
A learning issue? When there's no father in the home, it seems that OFTEN that male children have no father figure, and move to "learning issues" today.
Military Service used to be a great discipline, self-respect, self-reliance, meaningful-member-of-a-team building exercise. With the Agenda put into the military today, I just do not know if that's still true but my experience in the past in the Military showed MANY "learning difficulty" and/or "troubled" yewts being made into men.
You have to have been there (in the old military) to appreciate the environment and discipline, or have seen it in someone you know and how they changed for the better.
The thing that all the services gives one, if one is thinking, is that no matter what situation one is dealt in life, one never-ever-never-ever gives up.
Thank you everyone. I didn’t realize the anxiety this was causing me until I started reading the replies and now I can’t stop crying. I sincerely hope that his years with me have not made him too soft to do this. I don’t want him to quit just because this is too hard.
But as God is my witness, I resent my son signing up to fight in a world that has been made worse by the incompetent legacy-whoring statesman-wannabe we currently have.
If he can survive a headlock from his Mom, he’ll be just fine. My Mom popped my eyes out one time.
Don’t worry - school isn’t for everyone. A friend of mine didn’t finish high school, but wasn’t afraid of hard work, and was a great salesman and people-person. Developed street smarts. 25 years later, he owns a truck-parts supply company doing $50 million in sales a year. He’s generous with everyone and his employees love him.
Tell your son its all about getting experience. Learn how to work in big groups, and learn how people behave in bureaucracies like the Army. Learn from everyone - copy the behavior of good people and learn to avoid the mistakes of bad people
God bless you both.
May God bless him and you.
First I want to say God bless and keep you and your son, and thank him for his service. My son enlisted a year ago and is on his way from his first (short) tour in Afghanistan. I have been very impressed with the young men that he has been serving with. They are a testament to our nation. HOOAH!
The Army is a lot of fun. I loved every minute of my time and my son is having a blast now. Even what I thought were the bad times are good looking back. If I was joining for the job thing I would go USAF, if my main thing were to love my job and have fun, I would join the Army and go Armor.
Sorry for multiple posts. Posting from an IPAD is different.
And it wouldn't be because they just like being mean. It's because it may save his and/or someone else's life one day.
As a MOM of a boy who joined the Navy 5 yrs ago, let me tell you that you will worry the entire time he is in boot camp. Every time you expect a call and don’t get on from him you will be upset. You will sit by the phone all weekend and as soon as you step away, he will call. It will be another 3 wks before he gets to call again.
But there are other worries. Are they treating him well? Is he doing OK? Is he homesick? Has he made friends? I felt like he was entering his first day of school, the first time he left my sight.
Don’t worry too much though. He’s turning into a man in that short amount of time that has just opened up the door to a new direction in life.
Just remember that when you miss him the most to be proud of him more. If you don’t understand the entirety of that statement, you will when you see him at his graduation ceremony.
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