Marine Post: Take Two

From last Monday:

The younger son said to me earlier,

I think you're about as good as a forty-year old can get.

I'm not exactly sure what that means, but it made me laugh nonetheless. The fact that he shaved a few years off my age didn't hurt either. You gotta wonder at times what goes through the minds of these kids.

It would appear that a military recruiter has set his sights on that boy of mine. Not surprising in the least, if you know him at all, but still a tadbit troubling from the mother point of view. I think about my own mom and wonder what she thought about such things- she went through it twice. I think about my estranged mother-in law and feel a foreign twinge of empathy- she was told her firstborn had signed up only hours before he actually left AND it was on Thanksgiving Day.

Yes. The firstborn I went on to marry, but that's another story.

For now, it's time we invite that recruiter over for supper.
We've got the Army and Air Force covered.
Let's see what a Marine brings to the table.

We're always up for entertainment.


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And today (Saturday, the 21st):

I wrote and posted that earlier and took it down only hours after it went public. I guess I was second-guessing what I was putting out there and not wanting any one comment to influence the boy one way or the other (or influence my thoughts, to be more exact). It always amazes me how the things I think will get the most attention don't get much at all and the things I think will bore the reader to death generate the most feedback. That particular post certainly kicked off a lot of interest almost immediately. Anyway, as is the usual with me, I've had time to process my thoughts and am ready to move on with life... at least for now.


Whatever will be will be.