Lessons from the 1940s - Letting Go

All right, so this is a World War I poster, not World War II, but the message struck me this week. The mother presents her son to Uncle Sam: "Here he is, Sir." Uncle Sam replies, "We need him and you too!"

Forgive me for being sentimental, but this past week my husband and I moved our oldest son into the dorms for his freshman year of college. This is what we raised him for - to become a productive and upstanding member of society. This is what's best for him - to become independent and to fu...