I guess the Army's going to build a man out of my son afterall. (See my last entry if you want to catch up)
He's decided that the next time they call, he's going to let them know that he's decided to get an education instead. He'll be going to college after high school.
Brainwashing our little boy is a success! We've been telling him "when he went to college" stories since he was a baby.
My god. I can't imagine these children going into the military right from school. Of all the boys that I know who are Thing 1's grade and age, there's only 1 that I could invision being in the military.
How sad is that we have a military full of boys? And that we send our children off to war. There really ought to be a law that they can't enlist until they're 21. Let them dip their toes in manhood first.
And to think, I was stupid enough last night to actually hand my son the phone. That ain't gonna happen again. I really should use the Caller ID we have. Thor's always giving me a hard time about just answering the phone when it rings.
This means War! Let's see the Army get past me!
I really don't have anything against the Army. Heck, my older brother was an enlistee back in '73 (right after the Vietnam War ended, nice timing). But he seemed so much older than my oldest child does. Probably because he'd been drinking for a long time and hopping trains for years by the time he graduated from high school. My son runs with a younger crowd.
Seriously, is a person's brain even done developing at age 17? How can we send these babies off to do a Dumb Man's battle?
8:08 a.m. - December 12, 2006
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