Missing loved ones

Here's summer! Celebrations are numerous. Monday we will be celebrating and remembering past and present heros. I can't help but think of all the families that are missing loved ones who are serving our country in other parts of the world. My best friend's son left for Iraq at the beginning of May.

My family is planning a cookout for Monday. We will all be together, except for my 20 year old daughter. She has been in Kentucky since February 26, and I miss her so much. Monday will not be the same without her. I will put on my happy face, but my heart will be empty. She has chosen to live with her boyfriend and his mother, both of whom are not like my family. We are just on another level, no we are not snobs. We are hardworking, honest, good people. They live differently with life values and moral values that are not what they should be. Unfortunately, my daughter, who has always been strong-willed, is supposedly in love and evidently not thinking. It's like she looks for people to help. I don't understand and hope that one day I will. She has a nice home, loving parents, grandparents and cousins, aunts and uncles...all that love her dearly. I know she is better than what she is living, why can't she?