Our son-n-law just got orders from the Air Force to be deployed to South Korea for a year.

He has been in the Air Force for about 11-12 years I think. He will leave in a few months and be gone for a full year. He has seven days to make up his mind whether he will go or not. (It is still a volunteer military and we should be ever more grateful for the protection all these men and women provide America. They have to make these heart-wrenching decisions all the time!) If he decides to not go, he will have to leave the military service. That is something he does not want to do. But if he chooses to commit to his South Korean deployment, he will miss his wife and two little boys for the whole year. That's a pretty hard thing to do to a family...be apart for a whole year. There are many things to consider in such a deployment, especially since the world is in such unrest. Who knows what will be going on with South and North Korea in the coming months and into next year?

Our whole family is sad for them, but oh so proud.