FOB Smart at 0015 - Tuesday
I am still awake from earlier today, well - yesterday, and I am thinking about my dear son. A friend commented on a Facebook post from earlier last night and I want to share it with you friends. I do so because I know I am not alone in this thinking... I should also say that my friend was honoring me in that he realizes, having served in the military before himself and also having deployed before, that it is hard for parents to deploy and leave their children. He also said he respects those that serve.
I will share a little secret with you. I am completely beside myself every waking moment of my life, whether right next to my sleeping son, holding him in my loving arms, or far, far away - across the oceans and 10,000+ miles away. I am as much in love with my son as I am the air I breathe, the sun that shines upon my face, the light the guides my life, and the sweet darkness that envelopes me at night and takes me to that special place where he and I meet and laugh and play in my dreams.
You know my story, friend. You know as well as I that sometimes, even in the worst of chances, life does not always work the way we want it to or feel that it should. I fall apart every waking moment and come back together all the same because I have a son in whom I cherish his future more than my own. I fall apart and hold it together because I have a boy who loves his daddy and needs his daddy and wants his daddy.
So, I can say this with all honesty. I am grateful to serve our country. It is an honor and a distinct privilege to be here far away from my son. My only hope is that he will someday know that often in our lives we must sacrifice so that others may succeed and in his case, a little sacrifice on the part of his father will take him a very long way.
You know, I am content in my life in as much as I can be considering my circumstances, my dreams, and my abilities. Life is good.
143, Kaesen.
Good night and good day.
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