On the Facebook fan page yesterday, I asked about how you deal with the ever present rumor mill of the Army. The question was brought about because I received an email from someone who’s soldier was in basic training and had already heard he was deploying right after graduation (actually I received two similar emails [...]
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I absolutely love Zac Brown. His song “Toes” is one of my all time favorites. So I was naturally excited and even more appreciative of him when during a recent awards show, he was unable to appear because he was playing for the troops overseas on a USO tour. I have the utmost respect for [...]
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You know, no matter how hard I try, I just cannot get into Twitter. Everyone encourages me to do it to be able to easily get information out about the Army sites that I have as well as connect with other Army wives. But I just don’t get it. It seems hard (almost impossible) to [...]
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Nicki Bunting is featured in this article on MSNBC about a group who has started collecting the items that are left on the graves of our fallen soldiers to avoid the items being trashed. Here is the link to the story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36571331/ns/us_news-military/ Until I read this story, it never occurred to me about what would [...]
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I recently asked the question on the Facebook fan page about how being married to a soldier had affected the spouse’s ability to have a career. I received quite a few responses but most had a recurring theme that quickly summed up led to one statement: What career?! It saddens me to see so many [...]
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I DVR’d the season premiere last night and watched it this morning. I will admit that I was less than impressed with last season and only watched the first episode and last few episodes of the season. But as always, it ended with a bang (literally) so I had to tune in at least to [...]
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Today, I was browsing through friends’ status updates on Facebook. One of my friends, who’s husband was KIA in Afghanistan, had joined a group for Pregnant Widows. It actually took my breath away when I saw the name of the group. My friend found out she was pregnant just after her husband was killed. He [...]
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I have talked about spouses not wearing their soldier’s rank in the past. But this is a little different twist. Don’t make judgments about me based on his rank either! At my husband’s last unit, I was a key caller for the FRG. I had held this position for close to three years and actually [...]
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