#sonTwo says that #GS3 and #GS4 know Grandpa is coming. #GS5 does not know why he got kicked out of his room.
#sonOne has not said whether #GS1, #GD1, #GD2 know I'm coming. I'm not expecting to see #GS2, as he lives some distance (2-3 hours drive time in each direction), on top of him being 25.
I expressed that it would be great if #Daddy_A could visit during this time. It has been something like 20 years since all three of them were present at the same place and time.
But this is the same doctor who recommended not getting the #COVID-19 shots until they’ve been out at least five years, so maybe he got his license out of a Cracker Jack box.
* #sonOne: mailed his birthday card the day before, so it arrived late * #sonTwo: mailed his birthday card and a book two weeks early * #Daddy_A: no birthday card mailed
But once they grow up and move out, your "favorite" is the one who stays in touch most. Second son currently calls me about 4X/week, plus does a regular weekly #videochat between me and his family. The older and younger boys are a lot less communicative.
But honestly, I bought both sons' cards the same day, after I got unemployment benefits. The other child's birthday is earlier, when I had no funds.
Killer attacking #Los_Angeles homeless while they sleep. Reminds me of #NYC killer who killed two at a corner wher #sonOne and I passed a week earlier. !SoCal
People are individuals. Maybe more people in certain ages hold one view versus another, but it is unlikely that *all* of them do so.
Yes, the things that happen in the world around people affect them. So for example "9/11" happened while #sonTwo and #Daddy_A were in middle school. 2nd son's school actually pulled the kids into an assembly room and put the news on for a couple of hours. So they watched the 2nd plane strike a tower and they watched the towers collapse repeatedly.
I'm not sure you can _legally_ exclude military recruiters from recruiting on campus as long as you allow others (educational institutions, employers) to do so.
As for whether joining the military is ever the right decision, there are some people where it is the right decision. #sonOne, for example, came back with training and experience he never could have obtained with the available resources. I disagreed vehemently with his decision and it cost us six years of silence. But it turned out that I was wrong, and I admit it.
I admit that they seek more infantry cannon fodder than avionics engineers, and most such folks return home after their enlistment having no marketable skills, often nothing saved in the military college fund, and having undertaken life/health risk of being sent into a war. So it does not benefit every soldier directly. But is that the only criterion? Don't we also care about getting people to benefit their families and society in general? How would we even know in advance which people would benefit?
After the fact, I determined that I did not want to deal with the after-incident emotions related to possibly killing someone. (I should note that the gang member didn't learn from this experience. He tried again at least twice. One of my brothers likewise grabbed the gun and sent the guy fleeing both times.)
Many decades later, there's no "let $BROTHER handle it". If a situation arose in which an intruder threatened my family members' lives, it would be up to me. I've been ready for years, but yesterday I decided to take some actions to prepare.
Both #sonOne and #sonTwo were once shooting instructors. It sounds like they're planning to put me through the training, then buy me a weapon.
A year or so later, he taught himself to throw pennies, spinning so fast they buzzed and curved. This time he practiced in his bedroom. By the time I realized what was going on, he could hit a target and punch though drywall or hollow doors.
When people are persistent enough, they can do surprising things.
Part of the plan was that we'd all play together and thereby increase our time spent together and our communication, but that never happened, so I stopped buying consoles.
When 2nd son #sonTwo was in college, one of his roommates had a family that his family "inherited" as servants for more than a century. So it appears that some enslaved people still remain.
@simsa04 #sonOne tells me that #GS1 is taking one college class and that he's got a history of walking into relatively decent paying jobs even without training.
He suggests that #GS2 may need a psychiatric evaluation for something like ADHD. But he's living with his grandmother, so there's no one to make sure it happens.