View Blog    Sending Children Off To War You're all proud of your son when he tells you he's enlisting. Relieved when he graduates from boot camp. But what happens and how should a parent feel when that "child" is 2 days away from being deployed to Iraq?  I look at old pictures of a pink-cheeked toddler with cracker crumbs on his face. Pictures of him and his brother opening their radio controlled cars together at Christmas. What happened to that "child?"  I looked at him as we watched him walk under the stairs at DIA with his army backback.....and that "baby face" is still there. It is buried under a "nerves of steel" demeanor, but he's still a "kid" in our eyes. As his dad says, "he is still a kid - he's just shy of 19 years old."  So here we are at yet another milestone...sending our child off to war - a war, by the way that I absolutely do not believe in. But we believe in him and his fellow soldier. Lord, get him there, help him do his job, and bring him home again safely. We love him.     Posted by WifeOfArturo on 2008-07-12 11:16:52 | Rating: | Views: 30     Email This to a Friend Friend's Email *    Friend's Name*    Your Name*    Security code*    Refresh Image                 Print This Blog Post     Bookmark: Delicious  Digg  Reddit  Facebook  StumbleUpon    Permalink:      Blog Comments    My family has fought in every war since 1760. the last was my grandson on his second tour in Iraq. Some of us have been on the wrong side,the revolutionary war and the uncivil war. the theng we had in common was that we were all young. Posted by  Mctruck  on 2008-07-13 13:32:57  Would you like to comment?     (Maximum characters: 5000)     You have characters left.      Security code:                                                     Refresh Image

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