West Point<\/a>?\u00a0 With both of your grandads being in the military you have a good chance of getting in!”<\/p>\nI could tell the wheels were turning in his head.\u00a0 There are a few things standing in the way of Austin’s career as a Pilot.\u00a0 First of all he doesn’t really like to fly.\u00a0 This could change though.\u00a0 I actually think he would be a great pilot.\u00a0 He keeps saying that he thinks he wants to be a surgeon.\u00a0 Maybe he could do both.\u00a0 Who knows?<\/p>\n
The other thing is that Austin has his heart set on Ohio State.\u00a0 This too could change.<\/p>\n
So Grandad’s dreams of West Point and a military grandson may happen.\u00a0 He has 6 chances.\u00a0 Well maybe 5.\u00a0 Blake wants to live in a shack on the coast of Hawaii and surf all day.\u00a0 Doesn’t seem like he will go down the military road.<\/p>\n
Cole has much higher ambitions- he wants to work at Target.\u00a0 He says the Target guys are rich because we are always giving them all of our money.<\/p>\n
He has a point there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I know I am a little late to talk about veterans but bare with me.\u00a0 Today I got this email from my sister-in-law. Subject: hi thought you would want to know this: Clara called your dad on Veteran’s Day to thank him for his service to the country.\u00a0 She got a letter from him today and it said that although he appreciated the sweet thoughts from Clara, it was his family that were the true heroes.\u00a0 He went on to explain that it was you all tnat made it on your own all the times that he was gone.\u00a0 He also mentioned how difficult it was for all of you to constanly be on the lookout for “the shiny green car” to pull up in the driveway with bad news. I don’t know if he has ever said these words to you and your brother, but I believe him when he calls his family “the true heroes” Love you, Tracy First of all I want to say thank you dad.\u00a0 I know I never call on veterans day or bring up Vietnam but that is because I never thought\u00a0 it was something that you wanted to talk about.\u00a0 You made it clear very early on that you thought it was your own private battle to fight, and you didn’t want to burden your family with details.\u00a0 I respect that.\u00a0 And truthfully I don’t think I want to know.\u00a0 I have heard what it was like, I snooped and saw pictures, it was very unselfish of you to keep all of that to yourself. I was too young to understand why you were gone, I just know that I was happy when you came back. I am proud of you, my boys are proud of you.\u00a0 We love you very much! Ok, now on a lighter note.\u00a0 When we were in college at The University of Texas my father-in-law (also a military man) would always say, “now son, did you ever think about joining the reserves?”\u00a0 Andy’s response was always the same but it didn’t stop him from asking again.\u00a0 And again. Fast forward 10 years or so and you can imagine his delight now that he has 6 grandsons he can work on. Austin is the oldest Grandson so on their last visit here I started cracking up when I heard…..”hey Austin, have you ever thought about becoming a pilot?\u00a0 What about West Point?\u00a0 With both of your grandads being in the military you have a good chance of getting in!” I could tell the wheels were turning in his head.\u00a0 There are a few things standing in the way of Austin’s career as a Pilot.\u00a0 First of all he doesn’t really like to fly.\u00a0 This could change though.\u00a0 I actually think he would be a great pilot.\u00a0 He keeps saying that he thinks he wants to be a surgeon.\u00a0 Maybe he could do both.\u00a0 Who knows? The other thing is that Austin has his heart set on Ohio State.\u00a0 This too could change. So Grandad’s dreams of West Point and a military grandson may happen.\u00a0 He has 6 chances.\u00a0 Well maybe 5.\u00a0 Blake wants to live in a shack on the coast of Hawaii and surf all day.\u00a0 Doesn’t seem like he will go down the military road. Cole has much higher ambitions- he wants to work at Target.\u00a0 He says the Target guys are rich because we are always giving them all of our money. He has a point there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}