[Gaffer]

I was just home from basic in 1968 at the height of Vietnam. My cousin, a year+ younger than me had come to me saying he was entering the Navy and would train in Tennessee and all the training and benefits he would/could get. His mother BEGGED me to talk him out of it and I did for her sake (funny, no-one from his side of the family had ever had to go in the military). 9 months later, he was in a car accident with some low-life with a fast car (426 Hemi) and flipped a dozen times in a field after leaving the road at 120 +.

He didn't die; he broke his neck and his mother/father spent the next 30 years dealing with caring for him. He died in an automobile accident a few years later.

Your situation? I don't know what to tell you other than to let him make his own decision. If you brought him up right, he'll make the right one. Interceding in someone else's future should be left to those with wings.

[babydoll22]

Thank you for your thoughtful reply.

Another poster thouht I had hijacked this thread which was not my intent. I want to apoligize to you.

God bless you.