Today my son, also known as the "teenaged one" attended the graduation/going away party of his friend Darnell. The two of them have known each other since junior high when they played on the school soccer team. When they started high school they joined the varsity track team together. During their high schools days both of them participated in numerous plays and sang together in the choir. They even co-hosted the final variety show in their senior year.
While one of them gets ready to go to college, the other is leaving for basic training and a four year stint in the army. This really scares me... this young man just turned 18 a few months ago, who knows where he'll spend his next birthday... maybe Iraq? I'm not even sure why "we" (USA/ our troops) are there ... Saddam Hussein is dead & who knows where the hell Bin Laden is now.
I guess I'm just hoping that he won't become another casualty of war... Godspeed Darnelito y que Dios te bendiga.
