Army Wives (Spoilers) and Thinking

So by now, everyone knows that Army Wives always seems to relate to me and it makes me think. So far (and we're only 24 minutes into the episode), it doesn't relate to me. haha, it's about freaking time. lol It has made me think though. Please don't take anything I say as me being against the military or anything like that. That'd be 100% false.
Have you ever thought how the child who has a parent(s) in the military has been affected? They have to deal with a parent being gone for months at a time. When they are older they start worry about their parent not coming home. It's everywhere now. News of someone else dying overseas. There isn't a way to keep it from childrens eyes. Some of these kids mature faster than they need to. It's not the parents fault but the fact that they feel like they need to fill the spot of their parent for other siblings and/or other parents. Honestly, what can one do about it? What do you do about the fact that you're essentially a single parent for X months?
Haha, I don't even know why I'm thinking of this. There is plenty of other stuff I could talk about that's actually about me. I mean hell I'm not married to a military man, I have no kids. I guess it's just one of those things though. I guess it's not much different than talking about how it affects the person's spouse. They have to deal with being alone for that amount of time. The difference there is that they most likely had an idea as to what they were getting when they said 'I do.' A kid doesn't get to choose their family.
An adult can take care of themselves. You can keep yourself busy when you know it's a bad day. As an adult you're more aware of what needs to be done. Plus, you can count a lot higher and count down the days until your love one is home and safe.
To all military families out there, stay strong. I admire you for what you have to go through daily.

Politics and flying

Tonight Zan and I were talking and he mentioned how a bunch of his friends were going to talk to recruiters after school today. I asked which branches and he told me that 4 were going to talk about flying with the Navy and 3 the Marines. Later on we discussed what branches and jobs we would want in the military. I said that I would only join 2 branches (one is because I'm a little biased), the Coast Guard and the Air Force. Zan would only join the Air Force. Of course two of the jobs that he would want to do he wouldn't be able to because his sight is too bad. He'd want to be a pilot, fly an ROA, or be a mechanic on helos. As for me, the only thing I can think that I'd want to do is be a pilot. I've always had an attraction to planes. :) If I couldn't do that I'd be happy with any other one that could potentially land me at the Pentagon. Oh and by the way, the only way I'd join is if I could be an officer.

I guess that it just got me thinking. Are we the only ones that think about this but do nothing about it? Is it normal to think about it but not have the intention to do it? We've had plenty of family in the military. My grandfather was in the Air Force, my uncle and aunt in the Army, another uncle and cousin in the Navy, and a cousin (my age) in the Air Force. There's probably more but at the moment I can't think of them. I guess we need someone to join the Coast Guard and the Marines and we can have had every branch covered at some point in time. :)

Just my little rant for the night I guess. Time to write uncle a letter now and go to sleep.

Until next time.