My Son the Marine (Vanity)

04-07-2013 | self

[ottbmare]

Yesterday morning my son received his Eagle, Globe, and Anchor as a US Marine. The young man who has given me an abundance of laughter, grief, delight, worry, aggravation, frustration, excitement, and exhaustion for nineteen years now fills me with pride and joy.

I could not be more proud or more happy that he has overcome all the setbacks and disappointments that held him back. Just talking to him on the phone today, for the first time since he went to boot camp 13 weeks ago, it was easy to hear that he was now a man, a very different person than the boy he was when he left. As I hoped, the Marines changed him into a different person.

I know that this forum full of patriots will share my patriotic pride. But in these difficult times, my pride is mixed with justifiable fear. So I ask you all to agree with me in prayer, and pray that our Father in Heaven will protect this young American as he seeks to protect our country. Please ask that God's will be done in his life.

[ottbmare]

Congrats to you dad for raising a son who was willing to go through the rigors of Marine Corps. training.

I am a proud Marine Mom, not a dad. My boy's father thinks this is all a little uncool and non-intellectual, and he is disappointed. That is one of the problems I mentioned in the original posting that our son had to overcome.

[Marine_Uncle]

Whoops. Forgive me mom for that over site. Was late, eyes where shot after some 15 hours on the computer screens.
Perhaps I should not respond so quickly to postings, when my brain is in half fried mode.
But the same wishes for HIS best for you all remain in tack.

[murron]

And you WILL enjoy it.