The other thread was getting so big I thought I would start a new one.
Today was a very hard day. We sent our Son in Law off to Afghanistan today. It is so hard to send a loved one off to war. He is such a good man. If I picked one out, it would be him. If i picked a son out it would be him. He and my daughter love each other so very much. it broke my heart to see her in such pain today.
He has already seen the elephant so i am not worried about that. He is going to a major outpost where there is a lot of roadside bombings and suicide bomber types. I was talking to his Colonel and my 8 year old granddaughter piped up and asked him to bring her daddy back safe. THAT brought the tears to my eyes, he told her not to worry that was his job and he took it very seriously. She hugged him and that brought some tears to his eyes. In all of his deployments, this is the first time that he has had family come to see him off. I couldnt believe it. We are planning a huge welcome home party for him. I want it to be bigger than the wedding. Also hopefully my wife will be here for it too.
Last night I was chatting with her on QQ and she was talking to Bobby. She was telling him to be safe and take care of himself. Then my daughter got on then the two of them both started crying. Very emotional.
After he was gone, we went back to their home. My ex wife was there and rode with me back to the house. She then asked to see pictures of my wife and her family. I couldnt believe it. She has said before that it was not natural for Americans to marry Chinese. (I know, she was just jealous). So I showed her our wedding dinner pictures. She looked at them and She just said Hmm, uhhuh and she is very pretty. I told her I only marry beautiful women. She didnt even laugh at that. I told her I am extremely happy and wished the same for her. When I packed up to leave she came up and gave me a kiss, I mean a big kiss and said it was good to see me. I told her thank you and then I told her my wife wants to thanks you for divorcing me so she and I could be so very happy. ( I Couldnt resist that one). Then i walked out the door. It felt good. Now I will start making amends to her for that. I want there to be no bad blood so we can all get along on the holidays. My grandchildren deserve that.