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Originally Posted by 18XP
Son called from Pineland yesterday. It was a brief conversation -- he was borrowing a phone from a guerrilla/cadet. He passed Robin Sage and is now a certified 18D. He will receive his tab and beret next month. Thanks for putting up with my questions. I still wish there were dad bleachers like football at Mackall or in Pineland. 
Now I fear they will expect him to apply all the stuff he's learned over the past couple of years. It all just got very real.  |
Congratulations!
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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