Today, I graduated from Basic Training. I was really looking forward to seeing my family after being away for almost three months. They decided not to come to graduation because they didn't want to spend the money to travel here. They live 30 minutes away. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I found out nobody in my family wants to come to my college graduation. I spent four years and $60,000 to be the first person in my family to go to college, and nobody wants to see me graduate because the four hour ceremony is "too long." FML
Today, I attended my graduation ceremony. My parents acted mysteriously and kept urging me to go home, since we had to be "on time" for something. Thinking they might have planned a surprise party, I left my friends behind. I missed my graduation because my mom wanted to watch a TV show. FML
Today, it was my college graduation ceremony. My parents didn’t come because they “forgot”, although I told them and had been reminding them for months. Last year was my little sister’s high school graduation. My parents wasted no time going to her ceremony and then took her out to dinner. FML
Today, I'm in my fourth month of training in the US Navy. I'm 3000 miles from home. I joined to give my wife a better life. Since I've been gone, she decided that she liked being single. FML
Today, nobody wanted to come to my graduation after finding out that my father was coming too. FML
Today, my mom told me that on my graduation day, the reason she (and my dad) almost didn't show up was because they had to spend almost an hour convincing my grandma to attend. FML
Today, my grandparents told me they couldn't make it to my college graduation, even with months in advance to plan, because they had their annual Mother's Day plans with friends. Plans they've had every year, and are further away. This was the only time I'll ever have a graduation ceremony. My grandpa is my last biological grandparent. FML
Today, it was my high school graduation. Everything was going fine until everyone saw my family fighting over where we would go afterwards. Security had to pull them apart. FML
Today, after two weeks of trying to convince my parents to go to my high school graduation. They finally gave in. After they handed me my diploma, they decided to leave because it was "too boring." I'm currently sitting on the curb of the street waiting for my Uber, while people take pictures of me. FML
Today, I got offered a ride to go home for the weekend. I go to college six hours away from home and haven't seen my family for almost two months. When I called my mom with the good news, she told me not to come. FML
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conman531 23
Congratulations and thank you for the service. They are missing out on seeing a real hero
strawberrywine22 30
Well, that's their loss. They'll regret it eventually, not that it helps now. You're doing a great thing and you deserve their respect.
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Comments (107)
bigloser47 4
what ungrateful parents! thank you for your service
mchmelev1993 10
Make sure they arent invited to your graduation party;) throw an after partayy
oddities 20
That's not how the military works.
tygerarmy 35
In this case the after party will be traveling to the next duty station, the very next day for Advanced Individual Training for however many more weeks or months the job the Soldier is going to learn requires.
mufasaniqqa 13
*party. Not partayy
Secret_Ninjaa 35
Thank you for your service OP!
ihaveasushicat 24
Thank you for your service! I'm so sorry your family is being a bunch of turds >:(
aruden 25
Thats rough man, I know what that feels like. After I graduated I really wanted to see my family but I literally got 5 minutes before I was shipped off to Airborne school.
DJisHere11 19
What branch did you join Op? I'm leaving for Basic at the end of the month.
weveallbeenthere 30
family sucks. thank you for serving, almost everyone else appreciates it.
ThomasBombadil 31
Congrats from me too on graduating and your family should be ashamed.
Rainbow_dumpster 28
Thank you for taking the opportunity to Serve and Defend our Country. Congratulations for completing basic training.
underthesea12 24
they showed you how much you matter