[pepperhead]

My mother was the same when I went to Vietnam. She screamed at me for joining the Army. You will go to Vietnam and come back dead. I thanked her for all the support and walked out.

What did she say to you when you got back?

[RetiredArmy]

I told you you would get killed!! I was wounded and in the hospital at Fort Benning, GA at the time. My brother was with her. He said, "Mamma, he's not dead, just wounded." She cursed me every day of my military life for being in the service. Said I would never amount to anything in the military, that no one did. I asked her if she thought her brother James wasted his life. She said, no, James was a good Christian and had a fine family. I said, "Mama, Uncle James died just before he retired from the Air Force after 30 years." Then when it came near my time to retire, she was telling everyone how "smart" I was to stay in the military, now I had the life time pension, etc. My Mom, what a show.