Elenamary

Watching the news and a solider made a statement, I am paraphrasing “I tried to explain to my son that I was leaving for Iraq.  He doesn’t completely understand but he knows I am off fighting the bad guys”.  The bad guys?  What are the bad guys?  I understand it is difficult to explain war or the military to a child.  I don’t know what it is like to leave your child to go fight in a war.  But I question if teaching our children that it is us verses those bad guys is really the right method.

If I were in the military or my partner was in the military I am not sure I would know how to explain it to my child.