Where's Home?
What's going on everyone? Thank you all for tuning in and reading my thoughts. I truly appreciate it. After my blog about Fort Knox High School the other night, I began to wonder, exactly where is home for me? I've had this discussion before on social networks, and I know where I've considered home for the past 13-14 years, but as a military kid, where do you consider home?
I was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina in May of 1985. My father was in the military for roughly 18 years of my life, so we moved around quite a bit. Texas, Alaska, Georgia, Oklahoma for example. But the place I lived the longest as a youngster, was Fort Knox, Kentucky. Initially, we moved to Kentucky in 1991, and moved away near the end of 1994. In 1997, we moved back to Kentucky, and stayed there until the summer of 2001. After I graduated High School in Georgia in 2003, I traveled a bit, then moved back home to Kentucky in 2004. I've lived throughout Hardin County in apartments, and really became who I am today, right there. The place I've lived the second longest in my lifetime, has been the state of Oklahoma, which is where I currently reside. I didn't always consider Kentucky home, and the truth is, that reality didn't actually hit me until we left the second time. I have a tattoo on my right arm that says, "Born and Raised," with the North Carolina and Kentucky state outlines. But as I've gotten older, there's been a different state that has been on my mind, and may actually be my true home.
I'm the only member of my family, who wasn't either born or raised in Dayton, Ohio. For a while when I was too young to really remember, my mother, brother and I lived there for a year or two while my dad did a tour in Germany. Beyond those few years, I only knew Ohio through summer visits until I was twenty years old and moved back in with my dad before I joined the Air Force. I didn't really know much outside of my grandparents block in my school years, and when I was older, I had very specific friends and hung out in very specific locations, so I don't really feel like I know Dayton, like I know Hardin County, Kentucky. In fact, of the locations that I've lived in my 29 years, Dayton, Ohio would be #3 on the list of cities most familiar to me, behind Hardin County, Kentucky, and Oklahoma City. But with my family ties, I feel obligated to feel as if Ohio is important to me in some way. Hell, my father and most of the rest of my family still reside there now.
What do you all think? As military kids, where is considered home? Is it the place you lived the longest, and where your heart may be? Or is it where your family originated from in the first place? Maybe it's where you currently reside, who knows? I'm very fond of Oklahoma City, and eventually, years down the road, I wouldn't mind calling this area home. Anyway, as always, thanks for reading, and if you enjoy what you're reading, please hit the like and follow buttons if they're available. Also, make sure to spread the word, and tell a friend. Thanks again, and I'll talk to you all the next time. Peace.
I was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina in May of 1985. My father was in the military for roughly 18 years of my life, so we moved around quite a bit. Texas, Alaska, Georgia, Oklahoma for example. But the place I lived the longest as a youngster, was Fort Knox, Kentucky. Initially, we moved to Kentucky in 1991, and moved away near the end of 1994. In 1997, we moved back to Kentucky, and stayed there until the summer of 2001. After I graduated High School in Georgia in 2003, I traveled a bit, then moved back home to Kentucky in 2004. I've lived throughout Hardin County in apartments, and really became who I am today, right there. The place I've lived the second longest in my lifetime, has been the state of Oklahoma, which is where I currently reside. I didn't always consider Kentucky home, and the truth is, that reality didn't actually hit me until we left the second time. I have a tattoo on my right arm that says, "Born and Raised," with the North Carolina and Kentucky state outlines. But as I've gotten older, there's been a different state that has been on my mind, and may actually be my true home.I'm the only member of my family, who wasn't either born or raised in Dayton, Ohio. For a while when I was too young to really remember, my mother, brother and I lived there for a year or two while my dad did a tour in Germany. Beyond those few years, I only knew Ohio through summer visits until I was twenty years old and moved back in with my dad before I joined the Air Force. I didn't really know much outside of my grandparents block in my school years, and when I was older, I had very specific friends and hung out in very specific locations, so I don't really feel like I know Dayton, like I know Hardin County, Kentucky. In fact, of the locations that I've lived in my 29 years, Dayton, Ohio would be #3 on the list of cities most familiar to me, behind Hardin County, Kentucky, and Oklahoma City. But with my family ties, I feel obligated to feel as if Ohio is important to me in some way. Hell, my father and most of the rest of my family still reside there now.
What do you all think? As military kids, where is considered home? Is it the place you lived the longest, and where your heart may be? Or is it where your family originated from in the first place? Maybe it's where you currently reside, who knows? I'm very fond of Oklahoma City, and eventually, years down the road, I wouldn't mind calling this area home. Anyway, as always, thanks for reading, and if you enjoy what you're reading, please hit the like and follow buttons if they're available. Also, make sure to spread the word, and tell a friend. Thanks again, and I'll talk to you all the next time. Peace.
Home is where I sleep. It is not dependent upon those who went before me or the legacy I want to leave.
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