It is amazing.

We got the form letter from Mark on Friday and it was amazing how much better things felt. Just getting the fews lines in his scribble made things a little easier. He is doing fine and said it is "pretty fun" so far. I am glad now that we had him in the JROTC program because he has experienced a lot of the military stuff before.

As my wife and I walked through the grocery store this week, we kept finding ourselves looking at stuff Mark would like...only to remind ourselves that he is gone, only to return on occasion to visit "the folks" . His life journey has now begun and we have to learn to deal with it.

So now the count-down has begun. It has been 2 weeks since he left and he is almost 25% done!