Kids Say The Truest Things

One of my dance students, Elizabeth, whose dad is a Marine overheard a conversation between her mother and me. We were talking about her father's current deployment. He was in Iraq in 2003 for 9 months when Elizabeth was 5, and has just begun a 7 month deployment. Elizabeth remarked that this time, her father would miss her 1st Communion, her birthday, graduation from 2nd grade and wouldn't be back until she was a 3rd grader! Then she looked at us with that amazingly mature look she gets and said, "Miss Lara, this war has been going on as long as I can remember!"