{"id":67,"date":"2009-03-02T19:36:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T01:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2009-03-02T19:40:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T01:40:25","slug":"do-the-sacrifices-of-military-families-go-unnoticed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/do-the-sacrifices-of-military-families-go-unnoticed\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the Sacrifices of Military Families Go Unnoticed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was an Op-Ed piece in the Washington Post on Veteran’s Day about the sacrifices of military families<\/a>. It is written by a soldier and a wonderful read.<\/p>\n

It also has me thinking about whether anyone – including Paul – will ever understand how hard this year was for me. We joke about it sometimes and I say “When’s the last time anyone thanked me<\/em> in an airport?” The answer, of course, is never. Military spouses don’t wear uniforms – or special patches – there is no outward sign of what we’re going through.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I really think Paul believes that I spent the year relaxing here at home, hanging out with the dogs and happily spending his paychecks. (Don’t get me wrong – I am NOT capable of doing the job he does, and would never pretend I was or wish to trade places with him – but I did run our farm by myself for a year, without the luxury of calling him when I had a question or a problem… don’t I deserve a little credit?)<\/p>\n

Paul is usually really good at recognizing that in my own way, I serve, too. And I’m not sure he would be able to spend a whole year balancing our checkbook, doing all the laundry and keeping the house clean, taking care of the dogs and starting a business all by himself. But we have had a few arguments over the fact that he doesn’t always see my contributions as equal to his.<\/p>\n

“You never thought you were going to die this year,” he says.
\nTrue.
\nBut as I remind him, I did often think he would die. And at the end of every day, he knew he was OK. I didn’t always have that reassurance.<\/p>\n

Now that our deployment is over, I feel so blessed to have my husband back home. And I do know that out of the two of us, he has given more. But sometimes I wonder if he will ever be as proud of me as I am of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was an Op-Ed piece in the Washington Post on Veteran’s Day about the sacrifices of military families. It is written by a soldier and a wonderful read. It also has me thinking about whether anyone – including Paul – will ever understand how hard this year was for me. We joke about it sometimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civilian-support","category-press","category-one-day-at-a-time","category-relationship-changes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}