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Before I start on today's topic I wanna say thank you. A friend of mine emailed me yesterday and told me she's been reading my blogs and suggested I should try writing a book. I wanna say thank you Peggy for that wonderful compliment. It's good to know my words are getting read, but that's not the reason I do this. Still good to know people are reading:) On to todays topic.

I was talking to my sister the other day on Yahoo. She told me about this woman she met a few days before while out running errands. This woman is a military wife like myself and in quite a predicament. Her husband is currently stationed in Kwuait and his mother passed away. Having just lost my mother in law, I could already relate to what this poor woman was dealing with, only she was on her own. Now I don't know how many of you readers are military spouses, past or present, but let me tell you a little bit about the process when a death in the family occurs.

When someone in your family dies, whether the soldier is home or abroad, you have to get ahold of the Red Cross to get an emergency message to the soldier. My family has had to do this twice, once 2 years ago when Tom's brother died, and then last month when Ma passed. You need the soldiers rank, unit phone number, his CO's (Commanding officers name). Plus you need the hospital the family member passed away in, and the dr's information so they can confirm the death.

Once all that information is given to the Red Cross, you then have to wait for them to get the message to the soldier. I don't know exactly how that works when the soldier is deployed elsewhere, but when we had to do it for Tom, we had to wait for the Red Cross to contact his CO and then for his CO to contact us to approve his leave. It was a difficult process, I can't imagine what this woman was feeling waiting.

But it gets worse for this poor woman. She then gets a call informing her that they cannot find her husband. So now she's in this base, in a place she doesn't know, asking ANYONE she can find for help in finding her husband. My heart really goes out to this woman in everything she's going through right now. Please I ask that you pray for this woman, whose name I don't even know, in hopes that her husband is returned to her safely in this time where they need each other most.

Now, I heard once that military wives are some of the strongest in the world. And in alot of ways that's true. We as military spouses, have alot more to deal with than civilian spouses. Now, in no way am I saying a civilian spouse's job is any less difficult. But, we have to deal with not seeing our spouse for days, weeks, months, sometimes even years. Some military spouses don't know where they're spouse is, or what they're doing. I had a neighbor once whose husband was deployed to Afghanistan and because of his job, she only got one 8 minute phonecall a month. I was fortunate enough to that, Tom's job being computers, I was able to talk to him almost every day for however long it took him to fall asleep after work.

I know alot of you out there don't support this war we're in, and while I myself don't agree with it either, I do support our troops, and I support my husband. So whether you agree with the war or not, please take a moment to pray for this womans family, and for all of our soldiers over there today, away from they're families. I'm going to post something below that I found. It's called the Army Wife Creed. Enjoy your day!

I am the wife of an American Soldier.

I am a supporter of the United States Army-an encouragment for the protectors of the greatest nation on earth.

Because I am proud of my husband and the uniform he wears, I will always act in ways

credible to him, the military service, and the nation he is sworn to guard.

I am proud of my husband. I will do all that I can to protect, and provide for my family in his absence. I will be loyal to my husband and the vows that we made as we entered the covanent of marriage.

I will do my full part to carry on the goals and values we have set apart for our family and I will continue to instruct our children in the same manner.
As a soldiers wife, I realize that I play a vital role in my husbands decision to become a member of a time-honored profession-that I am doing my share to keep alive the principles of freedom,

for which my country stands.

No matter what situation I'm in, I will never do anything for pleasure, profit, or personal safety, which will disgrace my husband, his uniform or our country.

I will use every means I have to encourage my husband to be the best soldier he can be.
I am proud of my husband, my country and its flag.

I will fly the flag and always remember the sacrifices made by my husband and by generations of men and women that have served our beloved country.

I will try to make my husband proud of the manner in which I accept his decision to defend my freedom and the freedom of all American citizens-

for I am the wife of an American Soldier.

Corny I know, but this creed means the world to me.