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No News Is Good News and I Wish I Had Some
As a mother, all I want is for my children to be happy and healthy.
Everything else comes after that.
Sitting on the sidelines, not being able to do ANYTHING besides go on with my daily life, and worry about my child in Basic Training was hard, but at least I could now write him letters.
My husband shook his head as I dropped another letter into the box as soon as our mail was delivered.
I can’t begin to tell you how great it was, knowing that I could write whenever I wanted.
Through the Facebook page, I learned that it takes up to three weeks for each letter to reach the soldier. That was a bit disappointing, but I knew eventually he’d be getting them.
18 hours after I opened up the Commander’s letter, my phone rang.
It was a number I didn’t recognize, and when I answered and heard my son say, “Hey Mom,” oh my gosh, I can’t tell you how happy I was.
Until I asked him how he was doing.
Come to find out, he’d been in the hospital for the last two days with a possible hip stress fracture.
These SITs (soldiers in training) push their bodies hard, and for some it is a bit harder than their bodies can take.