Monday, March 7, 2011

My letter to Obama

Dear Mr Obama,
I am not going to call in a favor because my husband is in the Army, or because my son was a DOD Dependant, because quite frankly while my son is precious to me and he lived as a military child, Each and Every child who has been the victim of bullying is of upmost important to myself,my family, and their parents, When each parent who's child took their life due to bullying has a birthday or anniversary of their death wether it is 1 month 6 months or 10 years, We parents who belong to this club we DIDNT sign up for but just HAPPEN to belong to, support each other, We check in ,We get concerned if we dont hear from them , When you lose a child it throws you into a world, and if you have other children it is 10X worse because then you worry every day about them and their safety.
  My husband was in Korea and asleep the day Christian took his life, He woke to me screaming into the answering machine @ 430 am Korea time, Christian hung himself you HAVE to come home, I cant do this alone..... He got a whole 13 days leave and that doesnt count the flying from and to Korea , We have 7 children, as a military wife I know what I signed up for and I do my job , but when Ross turned his sights on Christian's older Brother Gregg who is Mentally impaired and a loving child and had the same circle of friends Chris did started bullying him, again the school did nothing.
When William my 14 year old was shoved up against the wall called gay, I followed the prceedure to report it again and nothing happened AGAIN! and in their OWN student code of conduct handbook it was a blatant 1 to 10 days suspention NOT to their discretion, I pulled my son from school.
 The Army is compassionatly reassigning us to another state and school which means uprooting my Sr Gregg to a new school in the mist of his Sr year all because I told him when Ross targeted him this was his descision we would stay or go, He said I dont want to be here I dont care about this freaking place I want nothing to do with Grafton High lets go.
 The only support the Government has given myself my kids and my husband is our unit in Korea who saw that we needed to be quickly reassigned away from here because the loss of even ONE child to bullycides is too much. I take a huge offense to your unresponse when on Sept 29th FIVE kids died due to bullying, you go on Utube, Sir my parents are in their late 80's, they dont know what Utube is and they still use dial up. 
 This problem is going to continue to grow until you and your staff (Congress and Senate) get real and realize that this is a very serious problem and it needs to be dealt with swiftly and in a timely manner just as the way you order your Military to be, as I said before I dont want special treatment because every child that we have lost are upmost the most special loving caring souls we have lost.
On the 15th of March  I will go to the Airport @ 10 and go to the gate and meet my soldier and bring him home to a house that once again we are packing up and moving due to bullying, to protect our kids, as we did in Dec of 2009, after Christian was physically attacked and the Principle couldnt tell me 100% that he could keep my son safe. and by 10 April we will be at our new location  getting the kids registered for school and signing on our new Command. all because The school allowed Ross Tombs (who's father is in the  Air Force and same rank as my husband but who is NOT a US Citizen) to Bully not just ONE of my kids without a care in the world but TWO! and I lost Chris I will not lose Gregg to the same bully or ANY bully.
Respectfully Yours,
Alise Williams Wife to
SSG Andrew Juntti
US Army 1-38 Charlie Co
Camp Casey ,Korea.