As terrifying as this whole deployment thing is, I'm excited that C gets to travel halfway across the world by plane and then come the rest of the way by boat. She'll be going around the world in (hopefully) less than 80 days. She's going to have a chance to practice a skill that I'm jealous of and see parts of the world that most americans don't get to see. She's starting the next generation of wartime service members in her family and joining my brothers as an active member of the Navy. She stepped out the door scared and excited and the next time she walks through it, she will be a veteran, with war-stories to tell and a new appreciation for the freedoms we have here at home that nobody but the people fighting for them can have.I feel a weird mix of lonliness, pride, fear and a whole bunch of other emotions that I'm never good at expressing so I'm not going to attempt to try. If you're reading this, give her a lot of support, she will have limited internet access so send her good thoughts.Come home safe C, I'm going to miss you.
Godspeed niece.
Good writing must run in the family :-) I hope she has a safe deployment and she'll be back before he knows it...
ReplyDeleteG-dspeed and G-d bless your niece and her brothers.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing lady red.
A family to be proud of.
ReplyDeleteI fear I've become a sentimental old sap. Deployments are nothing new in my family, and I don't know why I became so teary this morning. It's just...oh heck, I don't know.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's because the soldiers, airmen, marines, and sailors seem so young these days. Maybe I'm weary of war. Maybe I need to take a nap!
You are not a sentimental old sap, you are an appreciative American.
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