Comments on: A day of departures

by: Steve Emery

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:04:04 +0000

We’re approaching a similar set of departures with our teenagers. It’s rough - and we imagine our day coming. Hopefully it won’t all be on one day, though. Hard to imagine that. As usual, you turned it all into a well crafted piece.

May God bless them both and bring them back to you safe and sound - for visits, at least.

by: Jim

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:21:20 +0000

Something tells me that, based on your handling of adversity, you are a tough man and will make it through this rough patch. You’re in my thoughts.

by: John

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:47:53 +0000

G. Dan,
That’s an eloquent expression of the conflicted emotions associated with being the parent of grown children.

Being an empty-nester has its good and bad points I suppose. Congratulations to you and their mother on raising two, self-sufficient, well-directed young adults. Now you can stop worrying about them. NOT.

My late mother always told me that the shortest era of my adult life would be the 18-to-20 years I spent raising my kids. She was correct.

Of course she also said that raising me was more like a 25-year task and that she gave up in frustsration more than completed the job.

She was correct about that too.

May your son and his comrades stay safe. May your daughter find fulfillment in NYC.

by: RLR

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:04:06 +0000

Tell your son that we thank him for his service.

Don’t have much to say about NYC, since I have only visited and harbor negative desire to live there. But it is definitely a fun town! If she can make it there, she can make it anywhere.

by: Doug

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:26:23 +0000

My son and I (as well as his classmates) will continue to keep your son in our prayers as he heads for his second tour in Iraq. We will also add your daughter as she heads to New York. As a father and someone who grew up in a military family, I can understand the strangeness of wondering which to worry about the most.