They depart Rapid City on the 19th of this month. Mrs ladtx is going up there next week to help them drive back, so she will miss the last part of Jeff's homecoming. Brian insists that they can do it without her but you know how Momma's are. That's the way it goes with military families, as you are well aware.
He is going to be stationed at Pensacola and will be a navigator instructor. He really hates to leave B-1's though.
As you and Mrs. ladtx well know, the plans all are His for our paths....
may He continue to guide and bless all of you.
- LadyX
There are hitches in "the way it goes," ladtx.
I did all my childbearing and military travel without family help, far from Florida.
Visited, and my parents put the boys (then 6 and 7) and me on the plane to go to South Dakota, and it was the last time I ever saw my mother.
It was too far from Florida for her to be there when Jennifer was born, and we immediately (when Jennifer was 2 months old) were sent to Fairbanks, Alaska, not able to go to Florida and then up there, driving the Alaska Highway.
We were very close and wrote often, but she became ill in January 1964 and went to heaven on my second son's 10th birthday - never saw her after age 27 - never heard her voice again, felled by a burst aneurysm that left her totally incapacitated and unable to move, see or speak.
Count your blessings, as I will all my days for having had her.....