God bless all military men, wives and children! To all you women out there giving your men freely to protect the lives of others...I truly thank you and there will be a more biblical response during July 4th week on this topic! For now know that your unselfish labor of love for others does not go unnoticed! Love you all...
I found this and thought it was so fitting for the Military Wives and Momma's this Memorials day:
Other spouses get married and look forward
to building equity in a home and putting down family roots.
Military spouses get married
and know they'll live in base housing or rent,
and their roots must be short
so they can be transplanted frequently.
Other spouses decorate a home
with flair and personality that will last a lifetime.
Military spouses decorate a home with flare
tempered with the knowledge that no two base houses
have the same size windows or same size rooms.
Curtains have to be flexible and multiple sets are a plus.
Furniture must fit like puzzle pieces.
Other spouses have living rooms
that are immaculate and seldom used.
Military spouses have immaculate living room/dining room combos.
The coffee table gota scratch or two moving from Germany,
but it still looks pretty good.
Other spouses say good-bye to their spouse for a business trip
and know they won't see them for a week.
They are lonely, but can survive.
Military spouses say good-bye to their deploying spouse and
know they won't see them for months, or for a remote, a year.
They are lonely, but will survive.
Other spouses, when a washer hose blows off, call Maytag
and then write a check out for getting the hose reconnected.
Military spouses will cut the water off and fix it themselves.
Other spouses get used to saying "hello"
to friends they see all the time.
Military spouses get used to saying "good-bye"
to friends made the last two years.
Other spouses worry about whether their child
will be class president next year.
Military spouses worry about whether their child
will be accepted in yet another new school next year and
whether that school will be the worst in the city ... again.
Other spouses can count on spouse participation
in special events ... birthdays, anniversaries, concerts,
football games, graduation,
and even the birth of a child.
Military spouses only count on each other;
because they realize that
the Flag has to come first if freedom is to survive.
It has to be that way.
Other spouses put up yellow ribbons
when the troops are imperiled across the globe
and take them down when the troops come home.
Military spouses wear yellow ribbons around their hearts
and they never go away.
Other spouses worry about being late
for mom's Thanksgiving dinner.
Military spouses worry about getting back from Japan
in time for dad's funeral.
And other spouses are touched by the television program
showing an elderly lady putting a card down
in front of a long, black wall that has names on it.
The card simply says "Happy Birthday, Sweetheart.
You would have been sixty today."
A military spouse is the lady with the card.
And the wall is the Vietnam Memorial.
I would never say military spouses are better or worse
than other spouses are.
But I will say there is a difference.
And I will say that our country asks more of military spouses
than is asked of other spouses.
And I will say without hesitation,
that military spouses pay just as high a price for freedom
as do their active duty husbands or wives.
Perhaps the price they pay is even higher.
Dying in service to our country isn't nearly as hard
as loving someone who has died in service to our country
and having to live without them.
God bless our military spouses for All
they freely give!
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Being an Army wife and ex-soldier, I must thank you very much for this post. It is absolutely beautiful! It's nice to know that others remember us and acknowledge what we all go through, spouses and soldiers alike. Thank you and God Bless you!
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