Well, since I haven't seen my own son in 8 1/2 years, and I, no doubt, will NEVER be a grandma to anybody, I DO have a funny military story to share.

My father was in World War 2. He told me the funniest story. He was driving a truck while he was stationed in Germany. And up until that time, my father had never pulled a rifle on ANYONE (including the enemy).

One day, he was driving through what he thought was safe territory when this German soldier pops out of the bushes, and my father thought he was going to have a heart attack. The guy points a rifle at him and gestures to my father to get out of the truck.

My father does so. The next thing he knew was that the guy hands my father the rifle, puts up his hands and said the only words he knew how to say in English "I SURRENDER", I SURRENDER, (and as if to mimick the words "GET ME THE H, OUT OF HERE".

So my father did the only thing he could do. He told the guy to hop in the back of the truck and he drove his prisoner to the army camp where he was stationed.

My father said "You have never seen the heroes welcome I got when I brought this guy in". "Everybody was hooping and hollering that I captured a Nazi". I said "This guy was a Nazi?" and my father said "Who knows, but I caught a prisoner, he was German and everybody clapped me on the back and said "Good Job Frank".

So my father had one good prison story to bring home. Oh he had a lot of OTHER prison stories, involving women and England but that is for another time and another thread.

lol

P.S. We should ALL pray for our loyal soldiers who protect us every single day.