In a message dated 4/10/2003 4:04:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, SusiCP@aol.com writes: > MY o my the stero typing my kids lived through. A BRAT IS a BRAT in any > society a unmannered child can definitely be a BRAT. Normally Brat in > military lives means a child that has moved from base to base to base and > has > no roots so to speak but that is my thoughts. I had five children but not > one was a BRAT. My husband spent 25 years in NAVY. Families generally > try > hard to have children have some kind of roots to adhere to when husbands ie > > today Moms are gone. Genealogy yes but bias please. > > Huffman HIGGINS COVELL HENDERSON in this area. Jacob and George Huffman > where are your children?? They are the grandsons of Henry and Elizabeth > HIGGINS HUFFMAN HOFFMAN. > SusiCP > ****************************************************************************** ********** Perhaps it is true that not even one of you five children were BRATs, but all five were "military brats." It is a colloquial term that even the military brats themselves use when describing themselves. If you were around the NAVY for 25 years, you HAD to know that! a 25-year Army Vet