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Military Brats

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I have noticed that there are more than a few military brats out there in the knitting blog world. So, I have added a few interesting brat links to my side bar.

Today, I found out about Brats: Our Journey Home… a documentary that is currently in production. It addresses the idea of brats as a lost American tribe… a subculture of people who grew up on military bases around the world and who feel different from the people around them.

I know my sense of normal is skewed compared to the majority of people I call friends. I also know that I have have experiences that they will probably never have…. I have been to places they will probably never go. I have trouble unpacking boxes. I don’t remember events by the year they happened, but by where I lived at the time.

For the curious…

The About the Film section is really interesting… it also has links to pages about things like Moving or Life on Base if you scroll down. There’s also information on the filmmakers, the people they interviewed, and how to make a donation to help them get through post-production and get the film into film festivals.

States

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bold the states you’ve been to, underline the states you’ve lived in and italicize the state you’re in now…

Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / Massachusetts / Michigan / Minnesota / Mississippi / Missouri / Montana / Nebraska / Nevada / New Hampshire / New Jersey / New Mexico / New York / North Carolina / North Dakota / Ohio / Oklahoma / Oregon / Pennsylvania / Rhode Island / South Carolina / South Dakota / Tennessee / Texas / Utah / Vermont / Virginia / Washington / West Virginia / Wisconsin / Wyoming / Washington D.C /

Go HERE to have a form generate the HTML for you.

Doesn’t quite show the bouncing back and forth across the country that my family did… Places I’ve lived goes something like this: New York -> Georgia -> Alabama -> New York -> Arizona -> Alabama -> California -> New Jersey -> California (inside of which I’ve been bouncing around for the last 12.5 years). The only move we didn’t drive for was New Jersey to California because it was Oct and we had to get there for school. Every other cross-country move involved loading up the car(s) and going… usually so we could see the sites and see relatives who lived in the middle part of the country (we only really ever saw them during these moving trips). The funniest one in my mind is when we were moving from Georgia to Alabama, which should have been a few hours in the car total… but we had to go see my grandparents who lived in Iowa, so it wins the longest trip to move the shortest distance award.