Reged: 03/09/06
Posts: 900
Loc: High Rocky Mountains ibs-d
I spent some years in the military … 19 months in South East Asia. During those months in swamps and rice paddies, and elephant grass I knew that there was someone waiting for me at home. That made a difference … knowing that someday I might be able to return to a somewhat normal life. That there was at least one person in the world who cared.
Thankfully there are men and women who still feel the urge to defend their countries. God bless them!
Where would we be without them? And where would be without the families and friends that stayed home and waited for them?
You might not be a army wife, now, but you could be. In every relationship it takes work to make it happen.
But, then … I am sorry to say that I lost friends, over seas, and at home. At home, because they could not stand what I represented. And that was the reason I enlisted in the first place. To give those folks at home the opportunity to say they did not agree, and be free to speak their minds.
You certainly have a tough problem here … I lost friends that I loved, because I wanted to protect and serve.
I am sorry, but I would be afraid to have to make your kind of decision. I hope that this has not make it tougher for you … Adrian sounds like a person that you could trust and rely on the rest of your life…
-------------------- Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow”. Mary Anne Radmacher
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Re: In the army now
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow”. Mary Anne Radmacher
