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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed.  Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

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In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).  

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I changed names for my son's security. Thought I'd share this with you. I rarely write first person but it was appropriate this time.


I’ve always attended the Veterans Day Ceremony on Fulton County Courthouse lawn because it was my job to write about it, or because I think of myself as a patriotic person.
This year, I attended with purpose.
I went to honor my father-in-law, XXXXXXXXX., a top gunner shot down by the Nazis over the English Channel during World War II and rescued by a French Merchant Marine ship.
I went to honor my husband’s cousin, U.S. Navy Capt. XXXXXXXXX, who served not only during the first gulf war, but the wars in Iraq and Pakistan before his recent retirement. He was in the Marines too.
I went to honor Army Pvt. Phillip Alston Pugh, the affable checkout clerk at Kroger and recent Rochester grad who entertained me for months with his enthusiasm for pending boot camp.
I went to honor Mike Meiser, Mike Woods, Walker Conley, Jim Ewen and dozens of other young men who left Fulton County for military service and returned to serve their communities in other dangerous professions.
I went to honor the Indiana Guard Reserve, a little-known group of civilians who are the hometown reserves to our much-needed and much-used U.S. Army reserves.
I went to honor my father, who ran away at age 17, joined the military, and served during the Korean War.
I went to honor Vietnam veteran Dan DeCrow and his late son, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Justin DeCrow, killed one year ago at Fort Hood, Texas, by a deranged psychologist.
Most importantly, I stood among young and old from all walks of Fulton County Thursday to honor my son.
He is no longer just mine.
He is a sailor recruit at navy boot camp, gone from home only 14 days on Thursday.
He has become yours too by virtue of his choice to enlist.
It is upon his shoulders, along with those of his shipmates and the other young men and women in our voluntary military, that our freedom and protection lies in the coming years.
He did not take his choice to join the military lightly. We are at war. He knows and understands that. He knows he has a very important job to do. He fully comprehends he could die because of his choice to become a U.S. Navy Sailor.
My son was born the year the first Gulf War was fought. He and thousands upon thousands of military recruits and soldiers have grown up watching these current wars’ honor roll of the dead on PBS’s NewsHour and seeing their mothers and fathers, who lived Vietnam, shake their heads as the silent faces pass on the television screen.
If they lived in Rochester they have undoubtedly driven past the hauntingly beautiful headstone over Sgt. Maj. Jeff McLochlin’s final resting place.
Yet they are all ready, and willing, to serve their fellow United States citizens and some to risk their lives in combat.
So I went to honor those who are veterans because they already have served and those who will become veterans in the coming months and years.

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This is beautiful, HoosierMom. What a tribute to our military and to your son!
Awesome - well written - well said!
This article brought tears to my eyes. You can feel the pride you have for your son as you read it. Awesome!
Loved it!!
Hooseiermom, this is beautiful, very touching.Thank you for sharing it with us...
It's about al of your kids and loved ones too. That was one of the points I tried to make. We really do give our children to the rest of the nation for the good of the order. I have had good comments here at home and one woman told me she never realized that mothers might sacrifice more than anyone else when sending their kids to the military.
One of the worst parts of my job in recent years is that I've written very intimate stories about local soldiers killed at war, even covered their funerals in some cases, and interviewed their parents.
WOW... you really nailed the sentiment! What an awesome write up.
tracy (myhero ship 02 div 907)

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