Airman cries after WHOLE family taps him out at graduation 😭 | Militarykind

we'd agreed ahead of time that we would do have family tap out because I wanted to tap him out if he wanted to tap him out a lot of one wanted to tap him out and so it was just you know it made sense to kind of do it together [Music] we already saw down there we had our eyes on him the whole time those boys I mean although they're 12 years apart they are best friends and I mean it was it was hard on us to be away from Dylan but then to see our seven-year-old who honestly I kept thinking he would get distracted and kind of move on because he's seven and that never happened Dylan made him a build-a-bear and it has a recording and his voicing hey buddy I love you so we heard that probably 40 times the day when he wasn't here it wasn't like him going off to school or going on a vacation somewhere anything we had no contact with him no way of so it was super hard that kept him going is is that writing with him you know and he feeling in the loop about things that are going on at home and you know so it was therapeutic for us to write to him to be his in a way you know it's like I'm not seeing him on what's happening at home I'm letting him know we missed him but still remaining really positive even though it was hard [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 3min 14sec (194 seconds)

Published: Thu May 30 2019