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Deployment Soundtrack: If I Didn’t Have You
If I Didn't Have You

Thompson Square, 2012

Preview Song

While roaming Facebook one day, I saw a picture. It was one of those motivational posters that read, "You never forget the friends you make when you go to war." It depicted soldiers in a desert setting and I understood what it meant.

I would present to you, my sweet friends, that those of us who stay behind feel the same way about our sisters-in-arms. We are not stuck in foxholes with firearms or the threat of incoming rounds. Nor are we sleeping on a cot inside a container. But we are, in a sense, fighting a war of our own.

My sweet soldier and I occasionally delve into the discussion of deployed life versus homefront life. I am not saying that one is more difficult or better than the other. What I am saying is that both have their own set of challenges.

The reason this topic has crossed my mind is that since moving to Kansas, I have been fortunate enough to cross paths with two of my sisters-in-arms from Operation Iraqi Freedom I. We were all stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 2003, and we had the pleasure of being part of 3rd Brigade 3rd Infantry Division.

It was our first experience with a combat deployment and it was a scary time for us all. Most of us had never been through anything like that before. We were scared to death. We prayed. We cried. We leaned on each other. We helped with kids and meals. We lent shoulders and ears. Best of all, we made it. We saw them leave and we saw them come home. That was one of the greatest feelings in the world.

I have been thinking recently about how life will be when my sweet soldier returns home. I have spent the last year leaning on my girlfriends. We have laughed, cried, rejoiced and "sent out the posse" together. I would not have made it through this year, or any deployment for that matter, without them.

After twelve months of leaning on myself and my girlfriends, will I be able to make the transition to leaning on him again? Well that, my friends, will be another blog!

 

Strength and Courage ... sby

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