This afternoon I received an email from my husband’s battalion regarding a fallen angel. My eyes welled up with tears and I had to immediately get off the phone with a co-worker. I realize this is a reality of war, but nothing hits home more than someone from Mike’s battalion losing their life for our […]

She has been through 5 deployments with us and always takes it like a champ. She might mope a day or two after her hero in uniform is gone, but she quickly picks up her head and begins to take on the pack leader’s job. She makes coming home at night a little easier. And […]

by Dan Witters, Gallup.Com Young who have served in foreign war twice as likely to report chronic pain as never-deployed This article is the third in a special multipart series on the wellbeing of the American military. Part one covered active duty military and veteran wellbeing. Part two looked at wellbeing among deployed versus non-deployed. […]

I finally took the advice of my husband, family and friends this deployment and agreed to reach out for help. I hired a landscaper to take care of the yard while my husband is gone and it wasn’t easy. In fact, it took my husband telling me numerous times and my father-in-law recommending I get […]

Unfortunately my blog hiatus is over. Not because I don’t like blogging, but because Mike is officially deployed again. There is something about blogging about deployment when he is home that is just too overwhelming for me. But don’t worry. We have 6 more long months of this. This time we face our 4th deployment […]

By Amy Hotz, Star News Operation Salsa Drop is under way. (We just hope they don’t drop the bottles on concrete.) Flaming Amy’s Burrito Barn is on a mission to deliver jars of three of their top-selling salsas to troops overseas. The idea came to owners Amy and Jay Muxworthy in early April when Pvt. […]

By HENRY BREWSTER, New York Times Reports from Baghdad after a coordinated attack by Al Qaeda on May 10 were grim. The bombing was the latest in a series of large-scale attacks by Sunni extremists that began last August after a long and uneasy period of relative peace in the capital. The news of this […]

Prior to marrying my husband, who is a United States Marine Corp infantry captain, Memorial Day was just another day off to me.  A day to plan picnics and spend time with friends and family. However, after two tours in Iraq and getting ready to leave for his second tour in Afghanistan, the day has […]

One of the hardest parts of deployment (okay… there are a lot of hard parts), is waiting for my husband to deploy. You get the dates and as they get closer that is all you can think about. This is the last time we’ll go to dinner, this is the last time we will be […]

This summer, more than 600 museums in all 50 states are offering free admission to active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day, May 31, 2010, through Labor Day, September 6, 2010 to show their appreciation for those who are serving this nation. Here’s some basic information, but please check the FAQs for […]