Welcome to the Blogging from A to Z Challenge! For the month of April I will be attempting to blog each day, excluding Sundays, with a letter of the alphabet as my theme.
rmy. My oldest son made the choice to join the US Army. He is currently training at Ft. Benning, Georgia to become a Cavalryman; the training is not easy.
While he’s been away training our main form of communication has been letters through the US Postal Service. It takes around a week for our letters to reach each other and they usually cross paths on their trip. It’s certainly not the best way to communicate when you, as a mother, want to know everything that’s going on with your child. Especially when the communication relies on a 20-year-old who has grown up in a world where his home always had a computer and email to pick up a pen and
tell his mother what’s going on with him!
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| Letters from my son are treasured. |
His letters are few and far between. I try to make mine more regular so that he never forgets that he is loved and supported in his goals. I do cheat a little by typing his letters and adding photos of things that we’re doing – but this “cheat” allows me to tell him more of what’s happening here and show him as well.
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My son, early in the morning as we were
headed to the Airport after the Holiday break. |
Because my son started training at the end of the year and has struggled with health issues while there, his “16 weeks of intensive training designed to make him a versatile warrior” has taken longer than expected. Originally he would have been graduating this week, but will be in training until mid-June if all proceeds as expected. If his health issues continue, it may be longer still. I know he wants to complete this phase of training and move on to his Army career and that these setbacks must be hard for him; I pray they make his resolve stronger and his training set in his mind more firmly than might otherwise have been the case.
As a Mom of an Army Soldier, praying and writing letters is about all I can do – the rest is up to my son, his Leaders and his fellow Soldiers. I pray they all stay safe and make good decisions.
