Thanks and Sorry again.
PM, Email. Another point of misspeaking.
I will watch it a bit closer on my comments. I just had some concerns for your family though.
We had a local war vet go nuts when I was in my teens and I knew one of the children personally through summer camps and well take a guess how that ended up. But he did have some psychological issues as I recall.
Your place in the world is to work to defend people like me from others that do have honest bad intentions.
My place in the world is to try and find solutions to those problems first so people like you dont have to go to work!
In your line of duty your reasons are clear and understandable to you but not entirely to me. What I do is just the same. Clear to me but not necessarily easily seen or understood from your stand point.
And for everyones record. I do not have any children of my own bloodline but I have had an active role in raising a number of children that did consider me a father figure at several points in my life. And I do take an active role in my nieces up bringing and many of my friends children's upbringing as well. I am considered the proud uncle of a whole load of young people!
Raising kids to your standards is easy in my opinion. Raising them to others standards is much harder!
Some days I get after the kid other days I get after the parent.
Guess who takes their timeouts far more personally! (its not the kids)
So by bloodline terms I am not a true parent. But by active participation in the raising of children I am much more.