A Mother's Concerns ~ Again

Yes, today is another beautiful sunshiny day here in Grand Cayman! The weather says it 90 degrees out there BUT feels like 104 degrees. I haven't been outside per say, but did stick my head out in the garage which was blistering several hours ago!! My built in alarm clock woke me up before 6:00 am on a Saturday morning. I got up and went right back to bed hoping to go back to sleep, but in just a few minutes I got up as I was wide awake. When I got up I looked out our bedroom window happy to see it was raining. Let me rephrase that ~ it sprinkled for just a few minutes. When I looked out our front living room windows the black top wasn't even hardly wet. We really need rain here desperately!! With Monday being a holiday here I made a list of things that I wanted to do and began checking off my list. But as the morning went on I just didn't feel too good. My stomach is rather upset and raw feeling, I'm teary eyed and have a gigantic lump in my throat!! I've been thinking about Brett a lot today and my heart is hurting for him. I talked to him on Thursday evening and he told me that he leaves tomorrow for one week. He flies out to the state of Washington tomorrow for very intense horrible, nasty training. With a hood over his head, hands cuffed behind his back, he will be lead into a room where other military guys will come in and in very nice words beat him up!! They are allowed to do almost anything to him including breaking bones!!! This is supposed to be training for when he is deployed and if the terrorists would kidnap him. Well, excuse me, but isn't there another way to train them instead of breaking bones???? We're talking the US here not Afghanistan yet!! I know they must be trained but come on!! Yes, I'm very angry about this whole thing. After he comes home from Washington, then he must go to Fort Dix in New Jersey for 45 days before leaving the States. This whole war thing makes me sick!!!! Those people over there were fighting among themselves long before we went over and will continue to fight even if and when we pull out! We along with other countries continue to lose so many of our troops, but we continue on. I know it will never happen but it's too bad some of the high ups in the government don't have sons/daughter's that have to go serve over there in the worst of it like common people do! Things might change if they did!! I look at Brett for example ~ this is going to be his third deployment in less than six years. He's married with a wife, a little boy who is almost three years old and another baby to be born the early part of August. We're just hoping and praying he'll be home in Florida for the birth of the baby. Then they'll pack up their apartment again, move Karissa and the babies to Ohio for 6 ~ 7 months and totally disrupt their lives. This is happening to thousands and thousands all the time!! It just isn't fair and believe me, when it hits this close to home it really gets your full attention. I just can't fathom how poor Caden is going to make it for the time that his Daddy is deployed let alone Karissa and the new baby. Like I said, life just isn't fair at times, but we were never promised it would be! I'm not sure what time Brett leaves tomorrow for Washington, but when you think of him, please breathe a word of prayer for him and his family he'll be leaving behind. He leaves out there next Saturday probably in the morning and flies to San Antonio, Texas. A lieutenant in his flight was killed in an accident and they are going there for a Memorial Service. Then he flies home to Tampa sometime on Sunday, if I'm not mistaken. So, again I'm asking for prayer and for Brett that he won't have to take the wrath of this training to awful bad!! Thanks so much as I appreciate it and am sure he will, too!!