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Permalink Reply by DASMom on
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I received the scripted call yesterday! She will be greatly missed but I can't help but be very excited for her next season of her life!! Her last statement to me (besides I love you all), was "I'm ready to get this moving". She sounded great and being positive! I feel like I'm the only mom that hasn't cried a lot? Praying for all the recruits that started yesterday!
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Permalink Reply by Sheryl Hunters Mom on
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My son leaves on the 21 and he is my only child. Very hard for me to deal with this. Just trying to take it one day at a time. My head is so overwhelmed.
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Permalink Reply by MAMA_C on
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My only son has left too last Sunday. However I do have a daughter the youngest. It so quiet around here even though he has a quiet nature. What I miss the most he is always informing me about something and our interest are so much in common.
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Permalink Reply by NavyMomOfMCT on
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Today was / is / has been my first full day in the unknown but known world of my offspring Michael C. Turner. Had many moments of 'Hey Michael.' Started to text, wondered what he wanted for lunch, wondered where he wanted to go for dinner, shopped for 1. WOW ...
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Permalink Reply by Pinkhardhatmom on
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I thought I had posted here, but I don't see it. My son leaves for MEPS on the 16th and sworn in on the 17th. Hubby is supposed to be out of town with our youngest at a Boy Scout Camp. Poor hubby can't be in 2 places at once. Our daughter said she would go with me to the swearing in.
Already feeling sad.
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Permalink Reply by jlgarseeya on
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My daughter left from Cleveland for Great Lakes on Tuesday the 8th. We just got her box today. And yes, no mailing info, no letter, etc...just the 'stuff': phone, clothes, shoes, plane ticket,etc.... I was hoping, hoping, hoping for that mailing info.
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Permalink Reply by Robin on
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OMG you've already got her box? I thought it would take a little longer to receive it. My SR arrived late Tuesday the 8th as well. I'm suppose to be gone all day tomorrow. I want to stay home now!
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The weekend is here and he is not! This is first full week I have not heard from him. However I going to say hello to a random sailor this weekend. I live in Chicago suburbs and going to go to Taste of Chicago. If I see a sailor I'm going to ask simple questions. It's funny I always seen sailors downtown for years, but that just it. Now my son will be a sailor soon and that makes me proud. Once we were riding the commuter train going back home from downtown Chicago and a good looking young man saw us (my family) sitting together and he had spoke to my son about being in the Navy. He had planted a seed. Also many of Donald's friends are in the Navy too! So it was not too hard for him to decide. But I miss him so much!
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Permalink Reply by Tiny94mom on
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Okay all you strong beautiful ladies, I just joined this site a few days ago. Since that time I have done a lot of reading and I'm amazed by all of you. So this is my story. My daughter leaves for boot camp August 8, my only child. Her father past away when she was three years old. For many years it was just she and I, we have always been very close. I remarried in 2008 to a wonderful man. He has been everything we could have dreamed of. March 28th he had emergency open heart surgery that didn't go well. He is finally home but I have only three weeks before my daughter leaves. I'm an emotional wreck. Reading all your stories, I now believe I might survive all this. God bless you and yours.
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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She ships 4 August 2014. Recruits do not ship on Fridays although they may arrive in the wee hours of a Friday.
You will survive. There is a LOT of support here for you.
(((((Tiny94mom))))) That's a cyber hug from one Navy Mom to another.
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