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Comment by jess17 on September 22, 2014 at 12:24am

I just received an e-mail as well. :-)

Comment by stuntsmom on September 21, 2014 at 9:11pm

I got an email about three hours ago as well...

Comment by Dad of Sailor on September 21, 2014 at 2:44pm

Got an email from my son this morning so as of now they still can communicate.

Comment by ed'smom on September 20, 2014 at 8:59am

Good morning everyone,
So I got an email from my son today. He said outside communication is about to be cut off and sounds like something is going down with some new action. He's being very careful what he says and I'm not seeing anything on the news.
Has anyone else heard anything?

Comment by Mahler on September 20, 2014 at 7:31am

To Chris_mom- regarding your son and the loss of his grandfather-- I have read that their ship also has a psychologist aboard.

Also, when my sailor was on the aforementioned longest deployment-- since one in the Vietnam era and 2 others-- and she left for that dplymnnt, btw, 2 months early due to necessary circumstances , it should b said, (as opposed to being held out PAST the originally scheduled homeecoming) she had left to the tune of her Dad throwing up from chemo-type treatments due to Hep C, which involved several life-threatening health issues over the 17 yr. period. He just wanted to "show her a good time" before she left for dplymnt. Instead, he was sick at the country concert he treated her to.

He is now cured... 6 wks. after she left this time, having been told he had a 75% chance of a cure from the latest treatments-- just the night before this ship went out to sea. So this is a much less intense family time, from that perspective.

Last dplymnt, however, I somehow scrolled down ship info. to a section with up-lifting stories. It may have been a part of the chaplain area their ship info. had made available, electronically, to the families. I copied and pasted a story, or two, for my sailor, which she appreciated.

I also wrote them 20 supportive poems, but was far too ill, towards the end of that 10 1/2 month period to transcribe them all from my note pad to an email, using the library's computers. Those poems, the Major who thanked me, wholeheartedly, via email, multiple times, were very helpful to keeping them "staying strong".

In the meantime, I was advised by the Social Worker, a prior Captain on a ship, at our nearby Vet Center to not let on to my sailor I had severe problems with a rare illness, which, all the stress of her "well publicized" dplymnt made it worse. He said, if I conveyed to her my intense issues, she could "mess up"... so I had to stay so strong, as she was reminding me of her need for fortification, in an intense manner, when I'd hinted I'd needed cut back on being as supportive, due to other "made up" issues (as I didn't want to let her know she had TWO disabled parents, amidst the strain of being in 5 hot spots).

It's tough, when dplymnts don't "catch them at a good time" sometimes.

I used to write her rhyming sweet stories of when she was a kid, or stories of the places we'd go, and things we'd do-- maybe with a ship-mate joining us even (which DID happen) after her dplymnt, when she came home. These places to go and things to do were reminscent of days gone by-- a comforting concept.

Maybe you could find a peaceful place, too, to write cozy remembrances to your sailor, as I did. No need to rhyme. Just speak from the heart. Nature is relaxing, as a topic, as well.

Or sharing poems is helpful, it is said, if you do a search on stress relievers, as I had.

I will light a blue candle, as I often do, and say a prayer for your sailor and his family. God bless, and tell him I am praying for you and yours, as I feel knowing people who don't even know him are pulling for him will lift his spirits, as it did for my sailor.

Maybe we could all share up-lifting ideas for all on board.

Comment by NavyMomDPL on September 20, 2014 at 12:37am

Me too having everything set but will do what is needed. I too will be on that pier.

Comment by KWats Momma on September 19, 2014 at 3:38pm

guys...i was doing a little "reading up" this morning..I did the read the words "could be extended" from an article just wrote yesterday...

The longest deployment was the USS Bantran at 10.5 months

Comment by Anita n Ohio on September 19, 2014 at 2:19pm

FYI ~ made reservations today.   CHEAP!  I go to Expedia.com and find hotels but I call the hotel directly and ask them for the rate.  I've had a few VERY BAD experiences with these third party companies and I don't trust them.   So sure, shop around on their web sites but go directly to the hotel themselves to book your reservations.  :-)

Comment by Anita n Ohio on September 19, 2014 at 7:20am

WOO HOO      Putting up Halloween display tonight.   Go ALL OUT for this holiday (and Christmas too but tonight it starts!)

Comment by Laura on September 19, 2014 at 1:41am

Hi all.  I was on the Pier when my son came home from his last deployment aboard the USS Enterprise.  Way cool!

Unfortunately, we won't be there to see this homecoming.  he already told us that he will only have a few hours of free time the day they arrive home then he will be on duty for the next several days.

He's married but he volunteered for the duty so that the sailors who have kids would be able to spend time with their families.  How can I argue with that? It is a 1,001 mile drive door to pier for us. (we kept track!)

Our challenge, being Illinois flatlanders, is getting over those mountains.  Yikes!  We knew it was going to be a fun drive when we saw signs for the run-away truck ramps.  We don't have those in Illinois!

I hope they have the ship's arrival on a live feed so I can watch it from home.

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