Military Families and Their Sacrifice

Ive always tended to keep my personal thoughts to myself about how I feel about this war and our soldiers having to be overseas but I feel that it helps to give in sight to people who don’t know what military families go through and what they think about when their husband or wife goes to war. When my husband went to Iraq it was the first deployment Ive ever dealt with, at the time I was just his girlfriend but to him I was a sweet voice to hear on the phone and a warming smile to see on the web cam and a girl who was waiting for his safe return and a girl worth fighting for so she could have freedom especially when he came home, and every day we spent apart was another day we had to make up for. It was so difficult to go every day hoping he was safe even though I knew there was nothing going on in Iraq at the time. For some who don’t know all the men and women who went to Iraq in the last year were only there to take down the bases they spent the past few years building, they were helping the people of Iraq fight for themselves and moving on to defend our country moving their way to Afghanistan. Lots of people hate this war, its kind of like reliving the Vietnam war all this love people and hate war kind of thing, I just never understood why people chose to not see the whole reason we were fighting in the first place. Everyday the soldiers remember why they are fighting, to keep us free. You know just to drive around in a car to work or playing with your children in the yard without being shot at is freedom, people in Iraqi and people in Afghanistan don’t have that freedom and the terrorists tried to take it away when they attacked our nation. I love the freedom I have, people can say that we don’t have freedom because we have laws to govern us and there are people who are criminals who have guns but in America we have police officers to help keep the streets clean the best way they can and the laws are there so we don’t end up like these other countries overseas. When I would sit up at 2am and 4am talking to my husband while he was deployed I was thankful he chose to fight and he was over in Iraq helping to keep our country the way it is even trying to better it. I was and still am proud of all the soldiers who fought for our country and who are still fighting whether people decide to support the war or not I know I will always be behind the soldiers supporting them and if I have to Ill even join them but for now ill be the wife at home that supports my soldier by telling him how proud I am that he is a US SOLDIER and that ill always be by his side before, during, and after this war. Take it from a Military Wife, we give up more than anyone will ever know and we don’t complain and we don’t bad mouth the war or the people who decided to declare war we sit beside our husband, fiance, or boyfriend we say I LOVE YOU and tell them we are proud and make them promise they will return safe and sound, for the hardest thing in the world to do is not to say goodbye but to have to send them off with a kiss and a smile because you don’t want their last memory of you to be of you crying and weeping but of you being a strong woman, praying for their safe return.