Pd.... my thoughts are with you....
My son is 21 and has been in the Navy just over 2 years.. He is currently home on leave and after a way too short of visit, he will have to head back to Japan on Sunday.... His ship carrys about 1000 or so Marines, so I am very afraid that he will be seeing action either in the persian gulf or off of Korea in the foreseeable future....
It is different when it is personal... I often do not sleep well while he is away at sea and out of contact with the world.... When he is in Japan, his too seldom phone calls are at 3 or 4 in the morning my time and because of the nature of the job, they are often cryptic with my son hoping that I can interpret the message using my Navy experience, although often I cannot... But each call does assure me he is alive and well....
I have canceled basically everything this week in order to spend more time with him... Even just sitting and watching the tube is a treat.... After he goes back Sunday, I don't know when I will see him again so I want as much of him as I can right now...
It might have to last me the rest of my life......
May God Bless those that go and fight our battles for us.........
and May God Damn those that are so willing to send them........
The only people who actively hope to go to war are those that have not experienced it first hand.....
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