Graduation Day - now my son is headed for Korea.

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

Other than advice, my job is done.

[The Good Reverend Rollo Goodlove]

Other than advice, my job is done.

Awesome pic bro! Congrats to you and your son. Great job man.

[DaveR]

Congrats Leonard!

[MarkK]

Congrats. Tremendous photo.

[sammyrock]

excellent ! congrats to your son !

[liL Ray]

Awesome Job LRR!! well done...

(Is this the same son I met when I met you at the Chosen Few picnic years ago?)

[DaBownca]

Congratz to you both. Tell him to stay low!

[JMJ]

Very cool......JMJ

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

Awesome Job LRR!! well done...

(Is this the same son I met when I met you at the Chosen Few picnic years ago?)

Yep, same one.

[liL Ray]

Yep, same one.

wow...I knew he was something special when I met him. Very good work Leonard.

[Chuck P]

Great job LRR, congrats to you and your son, very nice pic as well.......

[House]

Dude

One of the all time great photos ever posted on DHP. For real.

Congratulations to you and your peeps on the job you have done.

Peace

[JMNYC]

wow GREAT pic ... it says so much. congrats to both of you.

[FK]

Hey Leonard, thanks for posting this great pic for us to see... no doubt this is one for the family history book.

Congratulations!

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

wow...I knew he was something special when I met him. Very good work Leonard.

Thanks Ray.

The only down side to his day was his mother didn't show up.
She had zero reason to not be there. She is in the Army too and said she was in some sort of class and couldn't make it.
She knew the time frame that he would be graduating and she's been to every class required of her for her rank.

The real deal for her absents is...she was too embarrassed to show up in uniform because she is a Sergeant First Class and has NEVER been to a combat zone.
I on the other hand have ribbons up to my shoulder, seven combat stripes & tabbed. She is a recruiter who has never been to a simple peace keeping mission but - recruits people to join the Army and do what she won't do...go to war.

The term "Lead From The Front" is something she knows nothing about.

The upside is "rumor has it that" - as of FY2013 / Oct 1, 2012, the department of the Army will be going threw all the records of soldiers from the top down, and all these Sergeants that have been in for years and have avoided combat tours will be kicked out, to include the ones with medical limitations on paper that deems them non deploy-able to combat zones.

It's all good though, he is doing him now.

I could be wrong about the reason his mother didn't show up but after the dirty looks she got from his drill sergeants at his basic training graduation (because she is a Sergeant First Class but never went any combat zone) that kinda says personal embarrassment is the reason.

Al I know is, there ain't no way any parent that is able - to attend any great step in their child life shouldn't be there for the event.

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

Thanks everybody!

This is another pic that says some of us are OLD - and not getting there

I have officially accepted the fact that I am old now. Not a bad thing but a real thing

[Fletch]

Dear Lil' Leonard......stay safe!

Dear Big Leonard......let Lil' Leonard's mom deal with the consequences of skipping her child's graduation!

[Dolemite73]

Well done, soldiers.

[BigHaus]

Dude

One of the all time great photos ever posted on DHP. For real.

Congratulations to you and your peeps on the job you have done.

Peace

Exactly!

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

Dear Lil' Leonard......stay safe!

Dear Big Leonard......let Lil' Leonard's mom deal with the consequences of skipping her child's graduation!

100%!!!

She will get no nastygrams or phone call from me. Mini me went from a boy to a man and I didn't miss any of it.

[Armento]

Congrats LRR. I guess the last name isn't Rrrremix. Wish him well.

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

I failed at a lot of less important things in life but I didn't fail my son.

[Steven Stewart]

Props Unc!

[chldfknungrnd764]

Korea is a very cool place.

[Dal-Tex]

I could be wrong about the reason his mother didn't show up but after the dirty looks she got from his drill sergeants at his basic training graduation (because she is a Sergeant First Class but never went any combat zone) that kinda says personal embarrassment is the reason.

She was like my baby is now grown up going away. He might not come back because he joined the army. I don't want to lose my child.