# My boy is home. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boy-is-home/608332 "2012-01-04T02:51:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boy-is-home/608332/21 "2012-01-04T22:52:54Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Very, very happy for Austin, Alice, Keith, you and his entire family. When I ran into him on his last home leave I was really taken with how much he’s grown as a man. From all reports he’s been a fine solider as well. > > Now time for you to put pressure on him for some grandkids! 😉 > > Seriously, we’ll help watch out for him when they’re back in our area! Hope you’ll come and visit. Well, **Shibb** , if you consider being the strongest, bravest, handsomest soldier in the entire Army to be a fine soldier, then yeah, he has been. 🙂 And oh yes…the granchildren drumbeat is definitely started! > [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > Yeah, when’s that happening? 🙂 > > Also, I missed them when they were in town last. When are you guys going to be around? Well, just as soon as I can persuade him to knock his wife up. I keep telling him to! They’re going to be back in Tampa in early fall, we’ll probably visit not long afterward. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boy-is-home/608332/22 "2012-01-05T02:23:13Z")
Wow, I am easily confused. I have been thinking for quite a while that you are the mom of someone else who was in Afghanistan. Unless you have more than one son that serves? ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boy-is-home/608332/23 "2012-01-05T12:39:55Z")
> [@fisha](#): > > Wow, I am easily confused. I have been thinking for quite a while that you are the mom of someone else who was in Afghanistan. Unless you have more than one son that serves? No, only the one, to my knowledge. I myself am also active duty, and have also been to Afghanistan, which I’ve mentioned here on the boards. Maybe that’s what you were remembering? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boy-is-home/608332/24 "2012-01-05T12:54:26Z")
Typing can’t indicate how happy I am for you and your son. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boy-is-home/608332/25 "2012-01-05T15:42:05Z")
“I got blown up, but only a little!” might be the most endearing ‘soldier telephoning home’ anecdote I’ve ever heard. What a cool guy, to keep a sense of humor in a situation like that. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boy-is-home/608332/26 "2012-01-05T18:17:14Z")
Welcome home, SPC Verble! Thank you for your service. And I hope my package in April helped some. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boy-is-home/608332/27 "2012-01-05T21:31:14Z")
Good for you, I hope that you always back him up in the future. He’s a good bloke, and an increment to society. Sending good thoughts both your ways . ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boy-is-home/608332/28 "2012-01-05T21:56:17Z")
> [@Lucretia](#): > > Well, **Shibb** , if you consider being the strongest, bravest, handsomest soldier in the entire Army to be a fine soldier, then yeah, he has been. 🙂 And oh yes…the granchildren drumbeat is definitely started! > > \*\* > > Well, just as soon as I can persuade him to knock his wife up.\*\* I keep telling him to! They’re going to be back in Tampa in early fall, we’ll probably visit not long afterward. You know Tripler and I have EOD friends w/ various levels of war-inflicted TBI so I hope you keep that in mind when I say \*\*please \*\*let him and his wife live w/ whatever affect it may bring him before they decide to start their family. I don’t intend to anger you or suggest your son is anything less than whole, only to say that brain injuries are mysterious and sometimes frustrating things. After going to my first and hopefully last Arlington funeral last year, I am so very glad another person has made it home alive after an IED attack. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boy-is-home/608332/29 "2012-01-05T21:58:30Z")
Hooray! Glad he got home safely! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boy-is-home/608332/30 "2012-01-06T00:55:47Z")
Did you yell at him for getting blown up?! Welcome Home ! Welcome Home! Welcome Home! ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boy-is-home/608332/31 "2012-01-06T01:26:46Z")
Awesome. Excellent. Big Smiles! -D/a ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boy-is-home/608332/32 "2012-01-06T01:51:37Z")
> [@Lucretia](#): > > No, only the one, to my knowledge. I myself am also active duty, and have also been to Afghanistan, which I’ve mentioned here on the boards. Maybe that’s what you were remembering? No, that’s not it. For some reason I thought you were **Bear’s** mom. Maybe there was some overlap in deployments with your son. And, Hooray! Glad he’s home, mom. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boy-is-home/608332/33 "2012-01-06T11:15:41Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > You know Tripler and I have EOD friends w/ various levels of war-inflicted TBI so I hope you keep that in mind when I say \*\*please \*\*let him and his wife live w/ whatever affect it may bring him before they decide to start their family. I don’t intend to anger you or suggest your son is anything less than whole, only to say that brain injuries are mysterious and sometimes frustrating things. Heh…I realize you don’t know my son, so you may take my word for it…unless I, personally, was capable of knocking his wife up, he will be starting his family when they are both good and ready, and not before, no matter how many times I say “What are you doing on the phone with _me_? Go have sex with your wife, and skip the condoms.” > [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Did you yell at him for getting blown up?! Oh my goodness, yes. 🙂 And my first reaction to reading his mention in the TOA speech was “He did what, now!?” > [@fisha](#): > > No, that’s not it. For some reason I thought you were **Bear’s** mom. Maybe there was some overlap in deployments with your son. > > And, Hooray! Glad he’s home, mom. I am not **Bear’s** mom, though I’m sure he’s a lovely young man. And thanks to you, and all who’ve posted such kind thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boy-is-home/608332/34 "2012-01-06T12:22:12Z")
I’m so happy for you. You have good reason to be proud. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boy-is-home/608332.md?page=1)