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| My worst fear.. go figure
Posted: 7/24/2009 3:55:04 PM | I'm 27. So what war do you think I was "used as a weapon" for? I never touched a gun the entire time I was in. They let me out when I got pregnant with my son because I'd miscarried 4 times prior while in the service.
No, I don't think our right supercede the rights of others... But I do think that if we don't take drastic steps, we will be attacked again like 9/11 with bone head as President. If it were a war to secure oil, how come Obama didn't pull us out on Jan 21? You think the military's purpose is to learn to kill people? As a VETERAN, I learned to shoot a M-16 in basic and didn't touch another one until I got OUT and went to a shooting range with my dad. Afghans can go to hell for all I care. They're harboring Bin Ladin. There's nothing you can say to make me believe otherwise. Fight a war that isn't our war... I wasn't our war when THEY ATTACKED US on 9/11? I am not from the poorest families in the US, neither were my friends that have gone over there. Maybe that's how Canada works, but not here. The first thing they told us in Basic was that they don't care what our background was, how rich or poor we are, what color we are. I don't support my president, but I support the troops and my country. | |
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| My worst fear.. go figure
Posted: 7/24/2009 4:30:53 PM | Hello....911.....I'd like to report the hi-jacking of a thread...
Humble apologies to you, MsCharlotte. I'm sure this is the last thing you needed to hear. | |
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| My worst fear.. go figure
Posted: 7/24/2009 4:45:07 PM |
right now I am not too panicked, but as the time draws near, I will be more so. How does one cope better?
As a former military spouse.. all I can say is you have to trust in him, his training, his fellow reservists, his comanding officer. I just faced each day as it came, just did the things I needed to do to get one with life. It's not that I wasn't concerned or didn't care, it's just that I had 2 small children and myself to look after and if I dissolved into a weepy puddle for the duration of the deployment, I would have sorely neglected them and everything else around me. He needs to know that you can be strong. He needs to focus on what he will be there doing, and not worrying about you at home worrying about him.
Spend the next several months doing as many things as you can together. Make videos, take pictures, build memories.
Keep him in your heart, say a prayer (should you so believe), treasure and value all correspondence and communication with him... I used to start a letter every Saturday/Sunday and write a little bit of what happened during our days every day and then mail it to him on the following Friday/Saturday (whenever the base mail was being sent).. this helped him to still be a part of daily life and keep things normal for him. I sent care packages every couple or 3 wks... magazines, toiletries, letters, pictures, homemade cookies.. whatever else he might have asked for.
We survived 2 deployments in 5 yrs. Yes, we were the lucky ones. Canada doesn't have the same rules on deployment as the States. You have 7 months with him. We got a couple of weeks notice. His last deployment was a debacle... was 4 months of he's going, he's not going, he's going, he's not going.. he went for deployment training and was told he would be leaving straight from there, but didn't end up going for nearly 2.5 months. THAT was more stressful on me than his actual deployment was.
You'll be fine. So will he. My thoughts are with you and your son. | |
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