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Well after reading Donna's (PD is her Sailor) I thought I should try to get this out of my head and here it goes......

I married my high school sweetheart we had 1 really great son Coy (Jake) he as everyones child makes your world go around. Since I was 14 now 41 I have had 35 surgeries on the belly hip to hip, chest to waist etc. I had lots of female problems ovarian cyst etc. So when Jake grew up and they do he decided in his senior year he wanted to be a Nuke you know those recruitors that come to the school, well one did and needless to say they got him my only child...Is that what all moms think? Well he went to boot camp on Sept 11, 2006 1 day after his 18 Birthday and oh boy that was so hard my baby leaving to do something so wounderful but, so damn scarey, lol atleast for me it was scarey.

I got lots and lots of letters they were so great to read even through my tears....The BOX was awful it was like the only remains left the smell of my son and the last outfit I got to see him in they should not send the BOX....

Then the First phone call OMG I was so excited all he had to do is hear him breath it was a priceless moment I will never forget he was crying I was crying....That was the best phone call ever...He said he loved it even though he said it in the letters home I thought they the Navy were telling him to say it ...But, in his words a mother knows when their child is happy!

Then it was time to see him again November 8, 2006 Great Lakes!!! Everyone, that is a mom on here knows the feeling of this day....

Then from Nov. 06 to March of 2008 he went through A School , Power School and Proto Type... Nuclear Power School @ Goose Creek. He became so very independant during this time it was amazing!

He did get to finally come home for about a month in April 08 before going to Va where he is now on the USS George H.W. Bush....

So there it is thanks to Donna whom I don't think I would of wrote this if I didn't read her Little Sailor Story.....