{"id":28275,"date":"2012-01-11T11:06:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T15:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28275"},"modified":"2012-01-11T11:07:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T15:07:22","slug":"jeff-horton-when-your-child-comes-back-from-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28275","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Horton: When Your Child Comes Back from War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Horton who is Alex Horton’s father (Alex is our drinking buddy from the Army of Dude<\/a> and currently one of the gurus of social media at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs) writes a great advice piece today at Alex’ VAntagepoint entitled “When Your Child Comes Back from War<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Many of my readers have watched their kids slog off to fight their generation’s war, as we participated in our generations’ adventures, and will probably see a bit of themselves in Jeff’s piece;<\/p>\n

Every morning when I hit my office I would bring up my e-mail, hoping that Alex had enough time during my nighttime to dash off some news. In kind of a perverse way, I felt quite excited and alive and engaged in the whole affair, watching events from afar but able to keep in pretty close contact with Alex through e-mails, his blog postings on \u201cArmy of Dude\u201d and even the occasional phone call. When Alex would mention that he would be going offline for a few days for one mission or another, I got a little nervous but I had a great deal of confidence in his training, skill level and the ability of his fellow soldiers to take care of each other. I just checked my e-mail frequently until he finished his mission and dropped a quick note of news. Then I would breathe a big sigh of relief.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Where I depart from Jeff is when he says the war ended for him when Alex came home. If anything, I became more engaged with the conduct of the war when my son, Paul, came home<\/a>, probably because I wanted all American families to feel the same joy I felt when he came safely.<\/p>\n

I’ll grant that my son, the Air Force surgical technician, wasn’t in the same danger that Alex, the Army infantryman, faced, but I knew that he faced dealing with the aftermath of the terrible battles and casualties on both sides of the war and the stress relief for Jeff was much greater than mine, but we have a responsibility to the folks who are still engaged over there and their families here who daily sift through the spam to find messages from their heroes.<\/p>\n

Alex has gone on to serve his friends and comrades, and we, the parents have the same calling to answer for our fellow parents of military members.<\/p>\n

But you should go read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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