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And God bless the men and women serving overseas that they may come home safe to their families....

Clownfish says this as part of his prayers every night. This morning I was flipping past CNN news on the way to whatever mommy-approved kid programming dreck I could find on cable when Clownfish said:

CF: "Are those guys serving overseas?"

CNN was showing some soldiers in Afghanistan, laying down some machine gun fire.

Me: "Yes. That's who you pray for every night."

Tonight, we were putting him to bed when he said:

CF: "Papa, I saw some guys serving overseas on television."

I briefly filled in the context.

CF: "That's where you were when I was two? You missed my second birthday party."

Bullshark: "Yes. When I left you were just a little guy... you couldn't even hold a spoon correctly. When I came back, you were a big two year old."

CF: "I think serving overseas is more important than going to parties."

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This happened on 11/1/09. I post-dated it for Veteran's Day because it seemed appropriate.

Edited to add: In light of the recent tragedy at Ft. Hood, maybe we'll have to change our prayer to protect service people everywhere, even when they're supposedly safe here in CONUS.

Full post as published by Butterflyfish on November 11, 2009 (boomark / email).