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FAYETTEVILLE, NCSaying he never could have imagined he would have the opportunity to follow directly in his fathers footsteps, 19-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. Tyler Corcoran was reportedly excited Tuesday to take over his dads old patrol route in Afghanistan. Its just so incredible that Ill soon be walking the very same footpath as my old man, securing the perimeter of Camp Chapman in Khost Province just like he did so many years ago, said Corcoran, who explained how, throughout his childhood, he had heard his fathers stories of guarding the forward operating base but never once considered that he would one day be traversing along the exact walls and securing the identical checkpoints his father had during his tours of duty. To think that Ill be monitoring the road between the airstrip and detention facility that Dad always talked about, keeping an eye out for IEDs and any suspicious activity the same way he did all those years ago. Honestly, its hard to believebut, wow, its really happening. At press time, a tear fell from Corcorans eye as he hugged his dad goodbye in the very same manner he remembered his father doing to him when he was a toddler.
http://www.theonion.com/article/soldier-excited-take-over-fathers-old-afghanistan--56731?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)TEB
(12,842 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)With literally no end in sight.
"And they will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; neither will they learn war anymore." I think that's from the Bible. I hope that it happens while I'm alive to see it. Anyway, I hope it happens when I'm gone.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,693 posts)TEB
(12,842 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)"But we'll get together then, Dad..."
We can have a new round of those reunion videos, this time with the kids being reunited with their aging parents in an old folks home, or at a Jimmy Buffett concert.
(Yes, I know it's The Onion, but for some reason it brought the old Harry Chapin to mind).
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Orwell, 1984 and Huxley, Brave New World were both written as novels, but were warnings for what was in the works for the future.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,693 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)it is literally possible.