Camp helps military kids cope with fears

By doris | Published: August 30, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com

FOMBELL, Pa. – Thirteen-year-old David Rojas didn’t tell his mother how terribly he missed her while she was on Navy deployments to the Middle East, because he worried it would upset her.

Knowing her mother is under stress, Shania Jones, 10, does extra chores to help with her younger brother and sister while her dad’s away with the West Virginia Army National Guard on his second Iraq deployment.

“Deployment” is a word unfamiliar to many children. For David, Shania and other military kids who stayed recently at Camp Kon-O-Kwee in western Pennsylvania, it’s a way of life that’s become increasingly hard.

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