<p>Wow! Go away for a couple of days and you miss all the good stuff.</p>
<p>Questions: who are all those “rich white boys” that are the only people admitted to USNA? The people I met were, let me see…an African-American enlisted Navy family who brought both of their boys on the same day, the state trooper from Alaska and his wife the ER nurse, the mom who emigrated to the US from Cuba in a raft, the grandpa from Illinois who was an enlisted Marine in Korea and is a retired machinist… the list goes on. Maybe since my hubby is an LDO (limited duty officer who worked his way up through the enlisted ranks) we weren’t allowed to sit with the rich white folks. </p>
<p>While I did encounter one or two who kind of sniffed when they learned our older daughter is an enlisted Marine and that hubby actually started as a bluejacket, the vast majority of people were just like us. They came from every conceivable background, many with all sorts of disadvantages. I was thrilled to know we are now part of such a diverse organization.</p>
<p>I think I will stay in the cheap seats…</p>