Her smile was back, and it made my day
In my neighborhood families are always incomplete, and you can always tell. Either you recognize it by the gloomy kids, the somber mom, and the vehicle that hasn't moved in months. It's the norm here, dads are always gone. Yesterday I saw my neighbor happy and smiling for the first time in months. Her husband was home, he is deployed to Iraq right now, and lucky him he's on the extended plan. He gets to stay fifteen months. He is home on R&R and enjoying time with his family. She was smiling, I was so happy for her, I wanted to just hug her. But, we don't roll like that so I smiled back and told her to enjoy her husband.
I can't wait until we pull out of that shit hole country.
7 comments:
You are so caring, I love your spirit.
I love that you said "we don't roll like t hat" It's such an army wife thing to do! Smile and give each other the look :)
Army/military wives/spouses are the strongest wives...ever. You all really amaze me. ^_^
I miss the Army every day, but it is days like that and the faces that make me look back and never want to do it again. Mi Familia!! I am happy that I don't have to see that look on Krissi's face anymore, and Savannah.
Those two weeks are so happy...until the last day. I remember being so excited for him to come home, but also knowing that he soon would gone again. It is so hard to know how to handle those emotions. I don't know how we do it and not completely fall apart!!
I've said this numerous times, I give major props to military families. The spouses for holding down the fort and letting go of their loved one goes off, the kids for missing that time with their parent - time that they will never get back, and the person leaving, making such a great sacrifice for the rest of us and being over there trying to focus on the task at hand while still worrying about what's going on at home. Thank you!
I can't say anything that anyone else hasn't already. Except I just cringe every time I hear of a US casualty. These are boys...mostly young boys who have a mother worrying about them...these are men, with young families...I cry for who they leave behind.
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