Vicki Robinson wrote:
> In a previous article, Tracey <rbrancher2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
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>>take the pen and notebook.) Within a week, he had decided that
>>joining the military was the best (i.e., what he thought would be
>>the *easiest*) thing for him to do.
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> Boggle. In the current climate he thought that joining the military was
the
> *easiest* thing to do? How long did you laugh?
I didn't laugh. Don't forget, both DH and I were in the military. It was
actually one of the options that he was given by me. (Just for the
record, the options were: 40 hour a week job, fulltime in school (all
paid for by him since he had flunked out at the end of his freshman
college year which we had paid for fully and, yes, he *could* have
went to school full-time on his loans/savings he just would have had
to live with us), part-time job/part-time school but 40 hours a week
on school/job/study, or the military. And, at the time, he didn't say
it was the easiest thing and that's why he picked it but I know it was
because it was the choice that made getting married to his girlfriend
something he could do in the foreseeable future (which is happening
next month, AFAIK.) The other options would have been another 2 to
4 years before they could marry.)
I know a lot of you might not agree with joining the military being
an option but there's a *huge* difference between joining the Marines
or the Army as security personnel or infantry or bomb disposal and,
say, joining the Air Force as admin or a pilot. Between the two of
us, we made sure he understood what types of jobs he needed to stay
away from. :)
Tracey
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