Posted on 10/17/2012 6:41:14 PM PDT by Badabing Badablonde
He struggled in school, crying during math, throwing tantrums during reading, and required a nightly headlock to get his schoolwork completed every night. In 2009 his father deserted us and completely cut him off financially, his sophomore year in community college. Since then he has held down numerous jobs to scrape together tuition, did a stint in Job Corp, and currently works partime in an automotive shop, while helping me care for my adult disabled daughter.
He is a good man. Drug and alcohol free, proud that for him true love continues to wait. Attends church every week, shares his faith, respects him mama, protects his sister, and he melts my heart.
But he wants to find his greatness. He wants opportunities. He wants to feel like there is a future and hope out there somewhere. He feels called to be part of something greater. I love my son so I support that.
I'm a mom. I'm not cut out to show him how to be a man. I teach him how to treat a date like a lady. I teach him that anger is for amateurs and revenge is for whiners. A good deed done in secret has twice the value. But I am incapable of the hard stuff. I don't even know what the hard stuff is. But I do know that he needs a life that doesn't involve caring for a tired single mom and a sister who requires more sacrifices than he is prepared to give right now. I'm sure the Army will be good for him, if he puts his own good into it first.
Mr. President, I wrote you off before you ever became the Dem candidate. I read about your church -- I cannot vote for a candidate who aligns himself in faith with a church that swears unquestionable allegiance to another country. When you campaigned in Germany, instead of working here in this country to win my vote, I was appalled. And when you referred to your own grandmother, a woman who loved and raised you, as a typical white woman, you made me sick. Its obvious to me you have no character or integrity. You have no record of ever fighting for anything, of ever taking a stand on anything, of ever demonstrating your commitment to be a public servant. You are Chauncey Gardener. You are just accidentally Being There.
But now my son is going to defend this country. The odds are he will be sent somewhere to fight people who hate us, hate that is more than likely enabled by your snivelling spinelessness and your need to be loved. The past four years our fine men and women in uniform have endured your contempt all the while protecting you and dodging bullets fired by your agenda. I will continue to pray every night and every morning that you are swept quickly and soundly out of my White House, and that your successor is able to restore our honor and greatness and pride. I have always loved my country and I have dedicated my life to working in its daily processes. I come from a large family of service men and women. But now, its my baby going out there, and frankly Mr. President, you don't deserve him.
My Son’s Basic Training and OCS companies had face book pages to keep family and friends informed.
Might not be a learning issue. Might be a learning style issue. Schools are geared to teaching boys like girls, and some boys can’t learn that way.
If he wants AF he should go for it! I think there are some study guides you can get that will help you with the test.
Tell him he doesn’t have to date the homo D.I., even if the homo D.I. tells him so.
Good luck to all of you and thank you very much for sharing your story with us!
Thank your son for serving and thank YOU for raising a son that will serve for his country.
He will come home more of a man than when he left and he already is a man if he’s helping with his sister, going to school and working. Please tell him best of luck from NM!
I followed what he was doing the whole time. It is pretty cool they do that now.
Sounds like you are talking about my elder son. He drove me and his dying mother nuts. But he did get through college then a 6 year stint in the Navy as a nuke.
You won’t recognize the difference after he becomes a man in the Army. God Bless you and him.
You have prepared him well and you deserve the praise. He has his own way to make and because of you he’ll do very well.
Don’t be afraid of the Army. I am personally a 22 year Navy vet (cold war. I’m pretty old). But for the past few years I’ve had the honor of working with couple dozen young Army veterans of Iraq and Afganistan and I can tell you that they are some of our finest citizens. Hard working, smart, and solid americans. He’ll be proud to be Army, and you’ll be proud of him...
I would recommend that he consider the U.S. Marine Corp, instead of the U.S. Army... Not that the Army is bad, by any means, but the Corps is a option that is not considered by many.
38 years ago I considered all my options and went into the Corps. I have never regretted it, even though I did but 4 years, I transferred into the Navy as a Field Corpsman and was (by choice) sent back to the Marines to be their Doc, (another option that I never regretted), and 16 years later I retired.
So there is always different options open to young folks, always.
Cheers to him & you!
Aaaw. You needed to get that saiid. You nailed a lot. People don’t realize the enormous struggles we go through in every day life. This was an awesome post. I’m going to be be praying for you and rooting for your son.
Hi Poolee Mom! Join MarineMoms and MarineFamilyNetwork. My only son left for San Diego on Jan 11, 2011 and those sites, plus the prayer group here (Pray for our American Heroes) helped so much during these 2 years. I will put your son in my prayer book and remember, there are millions of us praying for each other and our military and our allies. Pray that your son is assigned to the best Drill Instructor for him. My son’s DI is a great guy and a Christian to “boot!” I still keep in touch with his recruiters, too. If you need, you can always private message me.
You’ve raised a fine young man “Mom” ;) you DID teach him the hard stuff.
If he must be Army... (I’m just kidding, don’t everyone have a cow), but we’d be damn proud to call him a Marine.
Seriously now, thank you. Thank you for your hard work, thank you for raising a son, who will be all of ours Sons, brothers, fellow Soldiers.
We salute YOU Mom.
God bless you and that wonderful son of yours. Makes us all proud. :)
Hi Mom, the crying doesn’t stop, it ebbs and flows. I told my son to wait until a Republican was in the WH but he didn’t listen. He is a Marine, so no surprise there. He grew up so fast, and all the good that was inside just hardened into gold.
As for the Community-organizer-In-Chief, that has been very difficult for most of our service members, but the love they have for each other gets them through. He’ll do well knowing that you love him and respect his decision. Tell him I said thank you and give him a big mama-grizzly hug from me.
We have a prayer group for our military on Freeper in the Religion section. Let everyone know your needs, we pray every day. I got into the habit of praying at 9 p.m. EST when the guys are heading out in Afghanistan. During the day I pray for those doing night missions and for all those working during the day. I’ll add your son to my prayer book. Keep in touch.
I just said a prayer for you and him! God bless him and keep him safe.
You done good Mom.
I’m there. My oldest is currently in the ME. He HATES Obammie and is anxiously awaiting for Nov 6th. He will be devastated if Obamie manages to pull out a win.
And...send this to the Romney Campaign HQ.
Congratulations for raising a fine son! My oldest enlisted in the National Guard recently. He goes to Basic in January. I have the same wish that you do, that our sons will not have to answer to a Marxist CIC in the future.
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