Challenges
Linda Freshour: I am very pro-Military. I’m very patriotic, but I am a mother. And, I don’t know any mother out there that wouldn’t have their heart just bend with the thought of their son or daughter being in a place that there’s nothing you can do.
Darrell Harper: The toughest thing for me in hearing him say that he was going to join up was accepting that he was going to be going somewhere and I couldn’t control or help him.
Kathy Jerome: I was very nervous about the war. Every mother is worried about it. Anybody that goes over there, I mean, I’ve been praying for everybody.
Linda Freshour: You also worry about him mentally and emotionally.
Arlene Marquis: The possibility of deployment is the thing that I am most nervous about. Because until that happens, I feel like he’s safe while he’s here, while he’s home. In some ways, it really is not true. I don’t know that any of us are safe anywhere. Things can happen any time.
Ronald Brown: With Rachel just enlisting last year, was it last year? Late last year, I think it was. It was kind of what are you going to do? She’s going to be a military police. And that kind of, OK, it may not put you in direct harm’s way, but you’re in the thick of things.
Linda Freshour: He’s doing something that means something, that counts for something, and that he’s stuck with it.
Mary Turner: My boys haven’t deployed yet. I know that, I won’t say they’re looking forward to it, but I think that’s what they want to be doing. They didn’t, they’re not becoming Marines to sit stateside, so we’ll see what happens when they actually finish all their training.
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