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Well here we go again.....My son received his pre-orders for deployment this last weekend. According to the pre-order the guys have been instructed to get all of their affairs in order, so that they can ship out sometime in June or July. I have already been through this once. Wasn't that enough for any mother's heart to endure? I just can't help but think that every time my son deploys, the odds are not in his favor statistic wise. As hard as it is for me to have my son deploy again, I think of all of the other mother's that were not as fortunate to have their children returned to them alive. Many times I have found myself thinking, "But for the grace of God, there go I." I live in a small rural area and we have had a large amount of casualties per capita in this area. So far all of the casualties have been from soldiers that were in Iraq and not Afghanistan. Unfortunately, when you live in an area this small, you always know the person or their family. This makes it exceptionally hard. Once again the families brace themselves for another deployment. These young men and women are the babies that we have watched grow up over the years. Many are still too young to even have their own families. Many have never purchased their first legal beer and yet they are adult enough to put a rifle in their hands. I just hope that my heart can take another round of this, but most of all, I hope that the odds are still in my son's favor while he is over there. The hardest thing that we have to do as a parent is learn to let go. As parents, we want to protect our children. It goes against all laws of nature for us to let go and let fate hold the reigns.
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