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Operation Purple Camp Registration Open

My son is nine years old. He has spent more than half of his life living without his father. That is the reality of deployment for many military children.

And though he attends a school that is 99 percent military, participates in a Cub Scout pack that is purely military and lives on base, he still struggles every time his father packs his bags to leave.

Deployment, and the enormous range of emotion that come with it, is not something easily talked about on the playground, in a scout meeting or in a classroom.

Last year, Operation Purple Camp gave him a safe place to discuss those feelings with other military children.

Every year the National Military Family Association hosts camps across the nation specifically for military children, called Operation Purple Camp.

The camp is free to attend and focuses on children who endure the hardships of deployment. There, they have the freedom to hike, laugh, sing, swim and enjoy the campfire like thousands of children at camps across the country. But here, they are free from the stress and hardships of military life that they face on a daily basis at home.

They also have counselors who grew up as military children themselves or who have been trained to help them address their concerns about deployment. Every child there knows how deployment feels. Every child there has a safe place to talk about their emotions if they want to.

Plus, the week-long camp is a lot of fun.

Registration began this week. To find a camp near you, please visit

http://www.militaryfamily.org/our-programs/operation-purple/2012-camps/

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