A good friend of mine just entered boot camp. I want to send him letters, but I don't know what to talk about. We went to the same school or 8th and 9th grade, and kind of stayed touch online since he moved to another state. I really want to support him right now (since boot camp is tough) but I just don't know what to say. I want to ask him questions, but I know he's exhausted after every day (and doesn't have much time to write anyway). But then I'm not sure if telling him all about my (extremely boring) day would help either. I don't want to remind him of all the things that he doesn't have right now, but I'm not sure if venting to him will help his morale either (don't want to depress the guy). So I really don't know what to talk about. Should I just jabber on about nothing? It took three weeks (though I'm not sure i they held it or not) for him to just write me so I know his address, so I don't expect to have a back and forth, I just want to write him letters every day, but about what??
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just send him a short but well put together letter telling him how proud you are of him and you cant wait to see him when he gets out. i used to be married to a Marine and when they're in boot camp, they really want to escape for just a few minutes. so write about your day (not matter how boring it is). It'll help him relax and he'll be appreciative that you wrote him. Mail is probably the only thing that brightens their day when they're there.
hope i helped! :)
I'm glad MissAsian posted above me because I actually have no idea, never having been in this situation myself. My guess would be that whatever you talked to him about before he went to boot camp, would be the thing to talk to him about when you write to him, since I'm guessing your friendship hasn't changed or anything. Like she said, be supportive--tell him he's awesome and you're excited to see him again. Going away tends to make people feel forgotten about, especially when people don't bother to call or write them. So I'm sure that he will really appreciate the fact that you remember him and care enough to tell him how much you care about him.