Where to start today...
My stomachis in knots and i have so many mixed emotions...
My son...turned 18years old this past march, graduated from HS this past may...and now he is at FORT SILL< OK... for those who r familiar w the military...yes he is doing basic training at Ft. Sill... which is n artillary training Military Base...
i want to scream i want to cry andyet i am so am proud...but hurt...
for those who really know me u know i am pior service myself... i went into communications field... and the units i was eventually assinged to was the patriot missile to b the commo support ... I KNOW THE GAMES THE GOVERNMENT PLAYS!!! how they promise one thing and do another...
i wish he would have chosen to stick it out and wait for the chance to get the training in the medical field...eventually he wants to b a pharmasist....
its one thing for myself to have gone to SAUDI when it all started back in 90...and for me to have faced this BS our illustrious government has through us into...but knowing now that his choice of jobs is going to possibly send him over seas is really getting to me more than i can express...
I KNOW he will be trained well... I KNOW he is a strong young man and yet i am feeling my guts being wrenched from within simply because i knw that there is all this termoil over seas....
as my son finishes basic and then his ait i will b writing more as a way to deal with this new chapter i my life...
sry to vent as such, i know i am not the only parent w a child in the millitary... now i am taking my place as being in such a position and haveing to watch my own go and face all this now...
so for all those who r dealing with this same issue...my heart reachs out for you and your family as well...
I just thought of something IRONIC....
when i gave birth to my son, i had him whn i was stationed in Korea... SOUEL KOREA, in march of 90... my ex husband went to saudi first in octopber of 90...and i went in jan of 91... i never ever thought i would b faceing this day and seeing my son go into the millitary now... 18 years later... where does the time go??? :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
