Sarge's Daily Report PING!
I'd like a little opinion spot, here. My kids will meet this wall eventually, and they need to be prepped for the silence. One chick keeps calling one of my guys a dozen times each day.
My baby girl - 7 - gets upwards of 10 calls a night from a classmate.
I am very familiar with Internet firewall technology, part of the job.
Thinking about the concept of a home phone firewall.....
LVM
"Just as television coverage during Vietnam brought shocking images of war into living rooms, so today's communications technology has the potential to immerse already anxious families in the raw experience of combat, while miring soldiers in domestic problems that distract from the mission."
Neither my mother, or father or brother (older)
ever knew I went to Viet Nam
UNTIL after I came back.
The post office on my ship used to place a stamp on each outgoing piece of mail to them so they were not
tipped off by the free postage.
They were in my hometown of Chicago
and subject to the growing anti war crowds.
My thought why should they worry about me.
I can attest to a lot of what was said as being true. When KJ was in Iraq and if I knew he was travelling a dangerous route I would be on pins and needles til I got an email. And when he got there fine but just didn't get a chance to let us know, we spent a few anxious days. It's a catch-22 from the homebound. You want to know, but then maybe you don't want to know everything.
BTTT!!!!!!!
The silences don't tend to last long, but they do happen. I would just reassure your children that the internet glitches quite a bit as well (it does!) and that a communication blackout doesn't always mean bad news.
Last summer, the radio unit on the satellite dish on my camp fried and we were without communications for nearly three weeks. Oh, we could go across the base and use the MWR center, but those were jammed and it was more of a hassle than it was worth. We just did it to e-mail or call people back home and tell them about our communications failure to prevent them from worrying.
It won't be bad. You'll be able to communicate pretty well almost all of the time.