Mother's Day: Did your mother support your joining the Military?

Yes - she would have loved it if she could have signed me up even earlier.....

She only signed the papers because she thought they "wouldn't take me". What a vote of confidence!

I was set to graduate early from HS and had decided to enlist in the Army. Cold War was hot and heavy at the time and the Army was just at the very beginning to remake itself after Vietnam. Neither parents were veterans and viewed the military as a "last resort". My Mom wouldn't sign. She said that if "it didn't work out" I would blame her for "Signing me up". So I spent just under 10 yrs in the Regular Army and 20 in the Guard. My son served 5 yrs in the RA and has been in the USAR 3 yrs now.

No, she did not.