Re: 9-year-old stays as family deploys to Iraq.

On 25 Jan, 15:08, Harry Hope <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> When Breanna's mother left, Breanna was so angry she sprayed Clark
> with water from the shower.
>
> "I was mad at my mom," said Breanna, who is dressed in pink from the
> Scrunchie forming her ponytail to the sneakers with the retractable
> roller balls on her feet.
>
> The Fayetteville Observer, 1/25/07:http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id%2812
>
> 9-year-old stays as family deploys to Iraq
>
> By Greg Barnes
>
> They have all left 9-year-old Breanna Bodden now - mother, father,
> stepfather - to fight in Iraq.
>
> Breanna's stepfather, Fort Bragg soldier Ted Hagler, left in July. Her
> mother, Army Reservist Rebecca Hagler, headed overseas on Oct. 1.
>
> Her father, Marine Capt. Henry Bodden, shipped out Wednesday. Breanna
> has been left with a family friend, Deborah Clark.
>
> Clark lives in the Anderson Creek community, where children in the
> neighborhood call her grandma. She started the Anderson Creek Girls
> Club, a place for lonely children.
>
> Clark and Breanna's mother are best friends.
>
> So everyone agreed that Clark would be the best choice to care for
> Breanna - only no one said it would be easy.
>
> Clark has had to change her own life - to play mother again after more
> than 20 years.
>
> She now finds herself standing up for Breanna at school.
>
> She takes her to the doctor and to soccer games and wherever else a
> 9-year-old needs to go.
>
> "I'm trying to give her the life I gave my own children," Clark said.
>
> But sometimes, when you're a grandmother yourself, that can become
> pretty taxing.
>
> It's not like Breanna is any problem, though.
>
> She's a precocious kid on the academically gifted track in the fourth
> grade at South Harnett Elementary School.
>
> It's just that Breanna and Clark don't think it's fair that the
> military can take all of Breanna's family away at once.
>
> "Children left behind without a parent have a really hard time," Clark
> said.
>
> "But they are brave, and they are just as solid and strong. They are
> great little Americans, and they are robbed of their parents by
> President Bush."
>
> Clark doesn't think much of this war or this president.
>
> She said she has seen far too many soldiers come home from Iraq
> different people.
>
> The changes, she said, cause strife in their marriages.
>
> Breanna doesn't think much of this war either, but for a different
> reason.
>
> She misses her family.
>
> Her father, recently promoted to captain, had just moved to Cherry
> Point so he could be closer to his daughter.
>
> He bought a house and gave Breanna her own bedroom.
>
> She was going to have it painted meadow green before her father sprung
> the news that he, too, was heading to Iraq.
>
> "It's very hard to tell somebody that you love that you are going to
> Iraq. Very, very hard, especially if you are 9 years old," Clark said.
>
> When Breanna's mother left, Breanna was so angry she sprayed Clark
> with water from the shower.
>
> "I was mad at my mom," said Breanna, who is dressed in pink from the
> Scrunchie forming her ponytail to the sneakers with the retractable
> roller balls on her feet.
>
> Breanna's situation is all her own - few children have seen two
> parents off to war, let alone three.
>
> But other children have been left without a parent at home among the
> thousands deployed from Fort Bragg.
>
> Already, more than a third of the post's soldiers are overseas.
>
> More will be on the way soon.
>
> The Army requires soldiers to have a family-care plan that stipulates
> who will care for their children if they are sent to war at the same
> time, said Lt. Col. Billy J. Buckner, a Fort Bragg spokesman.
>
> The Army tries to keep married soldiers from deploying simultaneously,
> Buckner said, but that is not always possible, especially if the
> soldiers are in different units.
>
>                         Staying in touch
>
> For now, Breanna's connection with her family comes via the telephone
> and computer.
>
> Her mother gets to call her at least once a day.
>
> Breanna receives pictures, too, of her mother and stepfather together
> in Iraq.
>
> They are stationed about 10 miles apart, she said.
>
> Soon, Clark said, Breanna will be able to talk to and see her parents
> via a satellite hook-up.
>
> In March, Breanna said, her mother returns for a two-week leave over
> spring break.
>
> She gets home for good in October, after Breanna's father and
> stepfather return about the same time this summer.
>
> Until then, Breanna will make do with the Hilda Teddy Bears that lie
> on her bed, presents from her mother and father.
>
> She said she asked her father to leave his scent on the bear, but he
> left before he got the chance.
>
> Breanna will continue to read her Abby Hayes books, play soccer and
> pray each night that God keeps her family safe.
>
> "She deserves a medal, too," Clark said.
>
> "She is really a strong trouper."
>
> _____________________________________________
>
> Harry

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