December 2010 Blog Posts (7)

Everyday of the week at DFW Airport a flight bring in Soldiers on for 2 weeks of R&R. Each flight is greeted by not only passengers waiting for flights but local Businesses, Groups, Classes from local Schools and anyone who would like to spend time greeting the guys and gals home. Parking in the Airport is free and there are Flags available to everyone. Many bring Banners and as they walk through the sea of people you will see cell phones offers to them to make their "I'm Home…

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My son went to boot camp on December 14th with a graduation date of 2-18-11. Trying to find other fathers or family memebers with the same Ship and same Division. Please contact us if anyone knows of anyone with a child or friend in the same ship and Division. We would like to try and keep in contact. Thanks, JK

For those of you interested in how Wes has done since his discharge. . . it has been a long and rough road for him.  He fell into a deep depression and still fights off bouts of it.  Since his discharge he tried to pick up the pieces but ran into wall after wall, there just wasn't anything in the job front for anyone.  He moved to Iowa where his grandparents lived and landed acouple jobs that only let him go just before the probationary period drew near (they didn't want to pay benefits). …

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Got the kid in the box last week with a letter that Cody wrote at the airport to remind us that this was just a short time and that we would see him soon and then today go his address so we can send letters.

my son Daniel a hospitalcorpsman has been at Sigonella NAS for alittle more than a month and sounds like he is adapting well. sending nice pictures of the scenery and meeting new people. just fining it hard to adapt to the time difference in order to talk to us. Now we are awaiting for our oldest boy to go into bootcamp in SanDiego for the marines. proud of both of them!

To All NavyDads members, I wrote this several years ago and I have read it each year since. I wanted to share it with you this year. I am amazed at how much I have received each Christmas, I have pictures of my sister and her doll and me with my cast iron race car under a Christmas Tree not more than 3 foot tall, sitting on a coffee table, which was a great Christmas concering it was taken in the mid-50’s. The story below…

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