Happy Veteran's Day !!!!

♥ HAPPY VETERANS DAY & THANK YOU TO EVERYONE for your support and love for my husband, our soldiers, our families, and friends. ♥

Being a wife, your support and kind words mean more than you know. When we do not have our families near, we may remain at home to raise our children, and to keep the household going whether we "feel" like it or not. We have good days and we have bad days. When they ...are bad, they can be really bad, BUT no one understands what we feel, or how much we hurt, because more than likely they are NOT a military spouse.

 

They tell us we are STUPID for wanting this life. They do NOT understand the love and strength we have for our husbands, they are our life and support team, just as WE ARE THEIRS. They do not understand WHY they miss birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries.

 

They do NOT understand that they CANNOT put in a two weeks notice OR JUST QUIT, NOR DO THEY WANT TO, because they are proud, and WE are proud. OUR lives here and there, are not easy, BUT for those of us who are "chosen" as spouses; we remain strong, and stand by our soldiers through thick and thin, WE CHERISH the times they are home, and WE LOVE and APPRECIATE the small things in life together that others, turn their noses up towards or do not think are important....

" I would rather have FIVE MINUTES of happiness, than a lifetime of misery and regret"...

♥ THANK YOU for YOUR SUPPORT ♥

" A Military Man's Promise"...

 ... "I cannot promise you every night of my life. I cannot promise to be beside you for every difficult moment, every trial, and every hardship. In truth, I can promise you that I will not be with you for most. I will leave you at inconvenient times. Any special date to us may be tainted with the anniversary of the death of one of my friends. I will ask you to take over whatever life we have built together for months and years at a time, and will then crash back into that life that you have used your sweat, your tears and your heartache to keep together, and try to take it back as I knew it before. I will shut you out at times because it will be the best way for me to hold it together at that moment. I will lie to you. I will tell you I don't know things when I do. I will not always tell you where I am going, when I will be back, or who I am with. I may not call you for weeks and months and you will not be able to call me. You will ask questions that I won't answer. You will know answers to questions that you will hope you never need. I will share things with my brothers that you will never understand. They will know things about me that you never will. They will be a support to me in some things that you cannot be...

I will miss birthdays. I will miss anniversaries. I may need time to process things that seem natural to everyone else. It will seem that someone - or something - will always take precedence over you. You may lose me long before you ever thought possible. I will uproot you and ask you to re-establish our family anywhere in the world, in any season, at any time - over and over again. Sand and mud will be tracked through your halls from the boots I am too tired to take off. I will leave you when you beg me not to. I will stand at attention while you cry beside me. I will not turn my head and I will walk away. I will knowingly break your heart. And I will do it again - and again. I cannot promise you all of me. I cannot promise you much of anything. But if you will have me, I can promise that as I march away from you, it is not without sharing your heartache. I promise you that every time I break your heart I will be breaking mine. Every time that I cannot answer you I will be protecting you. Whenever you want to call and you have no number to dial, I will be wanting to do the same. I will protect everything that we have created together with every fiber of my being while you do the same back at home. I will honor you in everything - every moment that we are apart and every moment that I am with you. I will fight harder and push further knowing that I do so for you. And I will carry you with me in everything, until my sandy boots once again sit just inside our door. "


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