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a soldiers story....continued

Thu. September 04, 2008

A Soldiers Story

Wed. August 27, 2008

A Soldiers Story

Wed. August 27, 2008

A Soldiers Story

Wed. August 27, 2008 Here Is My story written from my point of view as the Mother of a soldier. I am telling his story along with his wife and baby boy from the way I have seen it all happen. I am sharing this very personal and heart wrenching story because I feel it is important for people to understand what these very young people are faced with every day. How things can and do go so wrong, how it can get out of control before anyone even sees it's happening when a soldier is away from their family for 14 months at a time. This is why there is such a need for support from the public and Organizations Like Project Ocol to fill in the gaps and help these soldiers who are out there protecting our way of life here.
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Before I start this story...Let me state that I believe the military tries to do what is right for our soldiers and they do try to take care of them...To this day I believe that my son joining the Army was the best move he could have made in his life and I am proud of him for fighting for our Country and everything he has done. I am proud of every military member out there and everyone who has ever served for our Country.
There are just certain things that happen to soldiers and their families that the military does not have the funds or the means to support when they come up and the major lack of funding is affecting everyone of them.
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In a perfect word, a soldier would join the military, go fight for our country, come back safe and sound when him tour is over and his spouse would make sure everything ran smooth while they were gone, sitting on the sidelines, supporting their spouse and the soldier comes back a hero to a good life.

Sorry folks, though I wish this were true, this is not a perfect world and it does not always happen this way..In fact in most cases it does not happen.

Here Is My story as a Mother of a soldier. I am telling his story along with his wife and baby boy from the way I have seen it all happen. I am telling this very personal story because it is important for people to understand what these very young people are faced with every day. How things can and do go wrong and get out of control so fast when a soldier is away from their families for 14 months at a time. And why there is such a need for support from the public and Organizations Like Project Ocol to fill in the gaps and help where we can. we will names out except for me at the writer....since this could be any soldiers story.

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My son joined the army 3 years ago when he found out his girlfriend was pregnant. they were on a dead end path here not going anywhere kind, of messed up with the wrong people, not keeping a steady job with absolutely no goals or career path to follow. he was not a bad kid, just young with no reason to take like serious until finding out he was going to be a Daddy. He felt that joining the army would give him the security and benefits he needed to support his new baby and new wife. Also he wanted payback for Sept 11th even though he was still pretty young at the time, he still wanted justice for America what was done that horrible day. this was his way of being able to maybe get a little of that payback in by fighting the bad guys and protecting his country.
So he went down to the Justice of the peace, got married, he signed the paperwork to join the Army and was off to boot camp with in 3 weeks.
Of course being who he is...he wanted frontline action..so he joined artillery where he would be right on the front line where the action is.
Honestly, I had my doubts if he would even get through boot camp at the time but he made it through with flying colors. I was so proud of him standing up and being a man and realizing he needed to make some drastic changes in his life to become a dad. I was proud of him that day standing in his uniform taking the Oath to defend our Country. That day I realized my little boy was gone and he was a man (still a young man) That little boy I raised was now a soldier, a husband and a father soon to be.
He was then sent to his home base for specialized training and told within 9 months to be prepared to be shipped out to Iraq.

I was there the day he was leaving for Iraq and I had many emotions going through my heart and head.
I had never been so proud of him for who he was becoming to be as a soldier and a man yet I was torn by worry knowing he was going to Iraq where he would be in harm's way every day.
The hardest part was watching him saying goodbye to his young wife and then 6 month old baby and the feelings they were going through. knowing they would not see each other for a very long time. it was heart wrenching and I held my tears back until I saw his wife crying and trying so hard to be strong. to watch the emotions playing across his face, knowing he wanted to just walk away and not leave but knowing he had a duty to go.
We said our final good byes and I took his wife and baby back to our home state for the time he was going to be away. I promised him I would look after his family and I would do anything I could within my power to make sure they were ok.
He was not scared to go to Iraq, or of being in danger, he was scared for his wife and baby he was leaving behind and afraid his family would fall apart while he was gone.

So I took his wife and baby back home (our home) until she could find a place to live & get things figured out. 1468 miles from the base driving cross country.

Now..this is where the story gets all messed up ...........

Now this is where I leave you hanging to tune in tomorrow's episode.

Please help us in raising funds for Project Ocol...spread the word about our project to raise money...to everyone you know...tell them where to buy Allison's cd below or contact the Ocol web site.

This is just one small way we can help raise funds to help project Ocol...I hope it will make other artists aware that they can do similar things to raise the badly needed funds for our soldiers.

Tune in tomorrow for the rest of the story.....Tamra Lynn smith

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