Breaking the news..

Before I joined the Army, I had gone back and forth on enlisting.  By the time I finally joined I was 22.  I bowled with my mom on Wednesday nights on a league.  While we were bowling, I told her I had something I needed to talk to her about.  I finally told her what I was going to Kansas City the next day to do.  Then I asked her if she would tell dad...  I ended up going to my parents house that night and telling my dad.  I was really scared of what they were going to say or think, but then by the time I had sat down and talked to them I realized that I shouldn't have been scared to start with.  From that day forward, they said a long series of hellos and goodbyes as I left for basic and then came back from Christmas, etc, etc - to include a move overseas and two deployments to Iraq.  I know my parents worried when I was gone, but I also know they knew that I was doing something that I loved.