Posted on 10/07/2009 11:14:51 AM PDT by flutters
She probably has heard about the new ROE...
Awwwwwwwwwwww
Poor little sweetheart...
Thats very cute
[tears]
I don’t think I’ve ever been so moved by a picture.
Thanks for the post.
To anybody who doesn’t think being an Army family is a hard job. And it had to hurt for that soldier to finally let go of his daughter’s hand.
You’re welcome. It’s very touching.
Thank you for your service. It sounds like your son is a fine young man. Good job!
In 20 years in the Navy I saw a lot of that. Six month deployments and tearful separations on the pier. About a year ago one of my former Boy Scouts, himself now a First Class Petty Officer on one of the ships, was leaving on a deployment. The local news showed his six-year old son on the pier in tears waving goodbye to his daddy.
I got the link and e-mailed it to my friend.
On the other hand, there is also the (happy) tear-filled reunions in the pier.
This is what our military is sacrificing for our freedom. Along with their lives, and even if they come out of it seemingly unscathed, their health. 20 years in the Navy (10 on aircraft carriers) and I suffer from pronounced loss of hearing and recurring asthma and bronchitis. And retirees don’t get hearing aids in our lifetime medical benefits.
The sacrifices made by their families go largely unnoticed ... thank you for remembering that.
the rest of america is shopping at the mall
I've objected to that before, and I'll object to it again. It's a sweeping generalization, and it's wrong.
Don’t feel sorry for her-dad is giving her, by example, a legacy of pride, character and honor.
Yeah, this stuff just kills me...
I remember being single, and ready for our deployments, ready and eager to get going...The married guys were always the last ones to get onboard, and in my opinion rightfully so...
We be gone for 6-7 months, and when we got back those same married guys were on deck ready for the gangway to be secured...
After things got settled down, I remember us single guys (that didn’t have the duty that first night back) we’d go ashore with a bag of dirty laundry, and looking forward to some good food and a nice tall glass of ice cold milk...
Ahhhhh, memories!!!
ping
.....while Obama calculates the politics.
Thanks for that.
Aww. God, that broke my heart.
I have a four year-old little girl, and it would just kill me inside to have to do that to her.
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