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Comment by Pat L. in IL on August 16, 2010 at 3:35pm

Kate, You bet, I saved every one of his letters. Found a really cool scrapbook with the Navy seal on the front. I put every letter, program, and picture in it. Hoping he will appreciate it in the future.

Comment by carols_kitchen on August 16, 2010 at 2:27pm

Kris--when I grew up, there wasn't the barrage of media surrounding everything. Celebrities were not "heroes." Matter of fact, we hardly heard anything about people in the press like now. Viet Nam was just beginning to make news. And, we were limited to our indoor time. We used our imagination and played outside.

so, when it was time to "join" the world in college, we spent a lot of time making relationships and a lot of time in the library because there was no internet.

Was life easier? I don't know. But I would not have given it up for anything in the world. I worked hard and late (restaurant manager and college.) Didn't have time to get into trouble.

However, I would never give up my computer now for the friendships of my military moms. I fast one day a month from it, and try to stay away from it late at night. things have changed. Our kids seem to grow up faster.

So, now I'm done with my rambling on.

Comment by Kris, Stevens mom on August 16, 2010 at 12:27pm

its my understanding when my son and friends go out one of them is the dd (which i have the feeling is all the time), of course my son had learned the hard way before enlisting.
its hard for kids at any age, the ones right out of school & on their own the first time & also the more experienced ones. so many think they are invincible.
my husband always used to tell the kids: "you've never heard anyone say that anything good has come out of a night of drinking"
If I may share my opinion all of us had it hard growing up but I think the kids now have it even worse, so much stuff is considered acceptable/common behavior that even though we may have taught them right from wrong they still get tempted......what I really dispise is friends with benefits.
ok I'm done ranting, thanks for listening

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on August 16, 2010 at 11:09am

Good luck to the class taking their last exams to become petty officer today.

Comment by NonnaB on August 16, 2010 at 2:49am

My son is taking his last exam before becoming petty officer 3rd class today. Good luck to him and to all his classmates!

Comment by Zazzws on August 14, 2010 at 11:04pm

My sailor tells me that more sailors get booted out of the nuke program because of violations related to "honor and integrity" than for academic reasons.
Sometimes intelligence doesn't equal smartness I guess.
He worries more about being a witness to underage drinking than he does about making it through the curriculum at power school.

Comment by Binker & Bro: 2X Nuke Mom on August 14, 2010 at 1:57pm

Alex mentioned that they all had to go and watch it. He kept saying Captain's masting and I couldnt figure out what he meant. He just assumed I knew. I finally told him airplanes dont have masts so he needed to explain to me. When he did, I said Oh, An Article 15--but doing it in public? He said there was drinking involved and they wanted to make an example so no one else would do it. He never told me how it went

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on August 14, 2010 at 10:51am

there just was a public masting for 5 individuals who were drinking, three of them were of age, one was underage, and the fifth was underage and 100% sober. the underage one that was drinking drove, got in an accident and got a DWI. don't know the results of the mast.

Comment by carols_kitchen on August 13, 2010 at 9:07pm

my3sons--I would like to find that wife too,and have her cook for me! lol

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on August 12, 2010 at 11:23pm

I think they need to be acceptable too. I'll never forget my sophomore year when drinking was getting really bad in my lil town. Okay, so it's always been bad but that time the cops were busting more parties. Our county is ranked in the top ten for underage drinking (not necessarily something to be proud of, but it's just the way we've grown up around here). The chief of police in our town came in to talk to all the classes separately... he commended us. He said he wasn't promoting drinking, but that at least we do a good job of designating drivers. At that moment I just thought, "Wow. The kids in our town DO have some common sense." :)

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