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News Update: Life-sized likenesses of Guard members ease separation pains
Lt. Col. Randall Holbrook travels just about everywhere with his wife Mary and their two sons, Justin, 14, and Logan, 5.
He's quietly in the background on family outings to the grocery store, to restaurants, camping, even on Mary's most recent visit to her gynecologist.
Randall has little to say because he's a "Flat Daddy", a two-dimensional foam board likeness from the waist up of the Maine Army National Guard officer from Hermon who was sent to Afghanistan in January with the 240th Engineer Group of Augusta.
This seems like the perfect way to screw kids up. If you read into the article some of the kids develop unhealthy attachments to the "flat daddy" that doesn't easily transition back to real daddy.
Also what do you do when it gets ruined? How do you explain to your kids that you had to throw away "flat daddy"? Or what happens if the worst happens and daddy can't come home? Isn't "flat daddy" going to make that very awkward?
Posted by pqbon at September 18, 2006 5:40 PM