[Henryk]

Originally Posted by Nucky

The people who don't agree with your assesment of these fine youts obviously doesn't come from our neck of the woods. I feel you were restrained with your comments. It's an eye for an eye isn't it? Imagine if it was someone you cared for that was struck. These kind of things must be nipped in the bud or the entire operation will suffer as this could be just the beginning of worse things to come. We deserve to feel safe. This is not good. It may be the gateway to bigger things for whoever it was. RickeyD

Listen to krazorbackfan....he was exposed to this garbage for his whole career.

I was a loving ******* to my kids. The youngest one was Charles. In his exit interview and final father son meeting that he called before being picked up to go to Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn he felt the need to tell me how rough I was as his dad. He told me how unfair it was that he needed to maintain a little part time job and attend school everyday and the real killer was he had to be home by 11pm even on the weekend. He felt I was to tough on him. I told Charles even though my heart was breaking that I was proud that he wanted to serve our country and that my goal was to deliver him at the age of 18 with no criminal record or drinking or drug problem to the world. I told him I never hit him which was another goal that I accomplished. I then shared with him that I got my butt kicked on a regular basis from my dad and wanted to never do that to him and that when he had kids he can let them hang out till 3 or 4 am. He got a whole lot off his chest and left with the recruiter at about 4pm.

After boot camp he came home for a visit and asked for another meeting where he thanked me for being a ******* with him because he met people where nobody cared what they wore what they ate or if they came home. He is excelling in the Army now. It is 100% due to his will to excel and not a reflection on us as parents. We did our best and now it's up to him to find his way and be happy. All I know is he wouldn't throw an egg at anyone. Mrs Nucky was the best mother a kid could ask for. She was always much more approachable than I was. The boys could talk to her about anything and always did. It was a good cop, bad cop team that worked.

I hope these egg kids have someone who cares about them.

Great story.