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This Memorial Day I remember last year when my son and I went to the National Cemetary on Fort Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. While we were there, we found the grave of Kermit Roosevelt, the son of President Teddy Roosevelt. Kermit was the son that went on the African safari with his dad.

My son joined the Infantry in the US Army. The unit he was assigned to just got back from Iraq last summer and was supposed to train for 2 years and then go to Afghanistan during the summer of 2010. This year, the war in Iraq is quietly being escalated and instead of going to Afghanistan next summer, my son's unit is going right back to Iraq in September of this year. I gave my son my 7" K-Bar fighting knife to carry in Iraq. I hope the K-Bar serves my son as well as it served me while I was in the US Army Infantry. I won't see my son for 1 1/2 years. May God be with him and his unit.



David,

I know your pain. My son just finished Army basic training as an MP at Fort Leonard Wood in MO and is going to Germany in June. I suspect that he will be there only for a few months and then he will be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. I don't expect we will see him for the next year or two. We are very proud of him, but it definitely is pretty scary. I never thought about how it was for my loved ones when I joined the Marines as a dumb 18 year old. Fortunately, I was deployed to Okinawa rather than Vietnam and was never really in harms way. Still, now I know how my parents and girlfreind (who later became my wife) must have felt.

Geo

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