family values

my son the marine called home last night he is stationed in okinawa he is so bright i always thought that he would have been an engineer or an architect but he decided to become a marine anything he says to get out of this towntheres is something about this town that makes our best and brightest leave they go to atlanta or even farther away vowing never to come back maybe being a tourist town has something to do with it there's a lot of sevice jobs some manufacturing jobs but the outside world offers more our small science museum was torn down years ago a clinic offering cosmetic surgery was built were it used to stand .i am still proud of him a lot kids he grew up with aren't doing so good at 19 he already know of kids that he played with when young who aready have a prison record or are trying be dealers or are just standing on the corners sadly my oldest son can say the same thing so many lives wasted i know its hard being a single parent but being a single parent isnt a new thing that just happened in the 20 century i think the difference is that families worked together to help raise a child uncles and aunts and grandparents were involved now nobody cares. Now it i got mine you get yours. how can someone not care if a close relative is in need of help. how can someone not see . i am glad my brothers step in when my ex stopped caring and kept ecouraging my boys to never give up and to keep trying to succeed we need more men like them in our families