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NEWSLETTER / WALDO NEWS / May 10 You are welcome, and we hope you do, share this newsletter with other members of the GREAT Class of 2026. |
| A true story. I have a lot of them, about parents, quite anxious that their son/daughter is leaving home. This was actually told to me by the mother. |
| "We left our son at the Naval Academy on Induction Day. No sooner had I gotten home, tat I realized how much I missed him. So i went on your website and found a photograph of him. I had printed in to an 8x10. Went out and bought and expensive frame, professionally done of course. I placed it on my bureau in my bedroom. When I got up ion the morning, I looked over at it, gave it a hug--and then I was okay for the rest of the day. All summer I did this. It helped me get through the summer. |
| MY son, after being gone July, August. September, October and almost all of November. Thanksgiving finally he was home. Soon after his arrival, I showed him the photograph I had of him all summer an dhow it brought me such comfort. He turned to me and said, "Mom, that's not me." |
| I responded, "Son, for seven weeks that was you. It will always be you." |
| BTW, the photograph was not him. BTW, they "all look alike." I know you can not possible recognize your son/daughter. You might want to withhold a decision on that one. |
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Larry Thornton / 443-699-3000 / [email protected] . . . 42 Years . . . Son of a Midshipman . . . Approved Vendor NABSD (NABSD stands for Naval Academy Business Services Division. They support your son/daughter through the next four years through the Midshipmen Welfare Fund. 20% of our sales is given back to NABSD to support your midshipman.) |