Recruit O'Donnell

Amidst lots of tears on my part, Connor commenced his journey to becoming a Marine today.  He was understandably quiet and anxious but is determined to see this dream come true.  He knows it will be very hard but left with a great attitude.  We ordered a "matrix" which shows what the focus of each day of the 13 weeks entails.  We will get a scripted "I got here" phone call tomorrow but it will be 7-10 days before he is allowed to write us with his mailing address.  He will be in our thoughts and prayers many times daily over this next 13 weeks...and this will be in our yard...