Challenges
Nancy Kennon: My biggest challenge was from the time she picked the job she was going in and signed for it to when she left for boot camp, and the reason that was she had a lot of peer pressure. All her friends were telling her she shouldn’t do it, and it was really confusing her, and she was trying to back out. And also when the parents of her friends were telling her that she didn’t need to do this, and I just made sure that she knew her options, and I would back her, whichever decision she made. You know, whether she went to college and had to work and support herself, it would be a hard job for her, and if she went in the Military it was going to be hard work.
David Smith: The most challenging part of this whole experience for us is actually the day we had to take him down and say goodbye for the first time because we had to for the first time actually let him go, and it was the first time for a long period of time we weren’t going to be able to see him on a daily basis.
Darlene Anderson: I think the hardest part for me was watching the news and the media, and you see all these things that are going on, and you kind of wonder, you know, was he in that area? Was his unit in that area? Were they affected by that? I think that was the most challenging part for me, and I just had to learn to not, you know, be consumed by the media. He seemed to be more concerned about his family at home and what was happening with us.
Dale Conjurski: Chris’ challenges were that, when he first went out on the ship he didn’t like being away from his family, and it was six months at a time, and there’s very little communication because you’re out in the middle of nowhere. There’s no cell phone coverage. He actually, I think, picked a job where he could be on a computer, so that’s how he would communicate.
Beth Radiseck: The biggest challenge for Chloe is just being away from the family because she said, she says often that she loves her job, she loves Oklahoma, so — and she just said it would all be perfect if her family was close.
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