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Navy Family Counselor
Aired April 25, 2003 - 11:34 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Homecomings and happy moments, but settling back into routine can be challenging for families separated by war. Susan Hare works as a liaison between sailors and families during deployment and afterward, and she's joining us from San Diego, where it looks like it's going to be a very happy day today.
Good morning to you.
SUSAN HARE, NAVY FAMILY COUNSELOR: Good morning to you.
KAGAN: We've been trying to anticipate some of the homecomings, hooking up some of the sailors and their families before the actual homecoming takes place, and it is going to be a happy day, but then there's the settling back into reality, and what are some of the big challenges for these families that they face?
HARE: Well, you know, anytime a family member is not a part of a local family for a while, things change, and babies grow up, and rules change and gasoline goes up. So there's all kinds of new adjustments they need to make again.
KAGAN: And spouses, and we just don't mean wives, because there have been women who have been away as well, so husbands as well, back home have had to compensate and kind of take over, and there's going to be some kind of adjustment of roles taking place, I would imagine.
HARE: Yes, you know, you become gardener and accountant, and you take on all the responsibility when the service member is deployed, and sometimes it's easier to take it on than it is to give it back, so you have to renegotiate who does what all over again.
KAGAN: I don't know if you're able to see our air a little bit earlier, but we were trying to reunite one family, the Webb family, and it featured their son, who looked like he was about five or six years old, missing all his front teeth, absolutely darling, and he was so looking forward to his dad getting home, understandably, but it's hard for kids to understand why mom or dad has been away for so long?
HARE: You know, it is hard, but our families really are the unsung heroes in any military effort, because our sailors can do what they do because our families do what they do everyday, and it's not just our spouses, it's our children. They give up high school graduations, piano recitals, ball games, but you know, they're such troopers and we're just as proud as our kids as we are our sailors. You know of which you speak because your husband has been overseas for six months?
KAGAN: Yes, ma'am.
HARE: What's his status?
KAGAN: Well, we think he's coming home pretty quick so that is -- that's wonderful. We've got a bunch of teeth. My daughter's expression is hurry home, daddy, the tooth fairy's going broke.
HARE: Absolutely. Well, good luck getting your husband home safe and enjoy today's reunions.
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Aired April 25, 2003 - 11:34 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Homecomings and happy moments, but settling back into routine can be challenging for families separated by war. Susan Hare works as a liaison between sailors and families during deployment and afterward, and she's joining us from San Diego, where it looks like it's going to be a very happy day today.
Good morning to you.
SUSAN HARE, NAVY FAMILY COUNSELOR: Good morning to you.
KAGAN: We've been trying to anticipate some of the homecomings, hooking up some of the sailors and their families before the actual homecoming takes place, and it is going to be a happy day, but then there's the settling back into reality, and what are some of the big challenges for these families that they face?
HARE: Well, you know, anytime a family member is not a part of a local family for a while, things change, and babies grow up, and rules change and gasoline goes up. So there's all kinds of new adjustments they need to make again.
KAGAN: And spouses, and we just don't mean wives, because there have been women who have been away as well, so husbands as well, back home have had to compensate and kind of take over, and there's going to be some kind of adjustment of roles taking place, I would imagine.
HARE: Yes, you know, you become gardener and accountant, and you take on all the responsibility when the service member is deployed, and sometimes it's easier to take it on than it is to give it back, so you have to renegotiate who does what all over again.
KAGAN: I don't know if you're able to see our air a little bit earlier, but we were trying to reunite one family, the Webb family, and it featured their son, who looked like he was about five or six years old, missing all his front teeth, absolutely darling, and he was so looking forward to his dad getting home, understandably, but it's hard for kids to understand why mom or dad has been away for so long?
HARE: You know, it is hard, but our families really are the unsung heroes in any military effort, because our sailors can do what they do because our families do what they do everyday, and it's not just our spouses, it's our children. They give up high school graduations, piano recitals, ball games, but you know, they're such troopers and we're just as proud as our kids as we are our sailors. You know of which you speak because your husband has been overseas for six months?
KAGAN: Yes, ma'am.
HARE: What's his status?
KAGAN: Well, we think he's coming home pretty quick so that is -- that's wonderful. We've got a bunch of teeth. My daughter's expression is hurry home, daddy, the tooth fairy's going broke.
HARE: Absolutely. Well, good luck getting your husband home safe and enjoy today's reunions.
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