Privilege Bingo: Military Kids Need to Check their Privilege?

We have military families on food stamps....or using food banks.
We have military kids living in homes with severely injured service members
Military kids living in single parent households or with a guardian because their parent is deployed.
Military kids who say goodbye to a deploying parent and the next time they "see" them is at the funeral.
Very privileged.
I've lost my ability to be civil on this one.


CMSgt Marcus Falleaf Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. SFC William Farrell Maj Robert Thornton SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth PO1 Robert Payne SGT (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Sgt (Join to see) LTC David Brown CWO4 Terrence ClarkPFC David Foster LTC Vincent Moore MSgt (Join to see) MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. SMSgt Lawrence McCarter 1LT Voyle Smith Cpl Vic Burk MSgt Dale Johnson SSgt (Join to see)

Privileged...BS...Military kids are more resilient than other kids because of the hardships they have to face as a military family but privileged...NOT! In todays environment God forbid you be a white military kid...I guess that comes with double privilege.

I was sent over seas 3 times. My kids were very disturbed and missed me a lot. I used to put them to bed at night reading a Bible story to them and saying a little prayer over each one. They really missed me. I made a tape recording of me reading their favorite Bible story and and saying their prayer. The was the worse part of my year in Korea. When I deployed to Saudi Arabia for desert shield/desert storm my mother, who lived with the family died a week before I left. My daughter, about 6 years old was very close to my mother. I was not there to help her through her grief. Yeh,we were privileged.