As I continue along our recruiting journey, I am overwhelmed by how much I miss being at a military installation.
I had no idea that it would be as hard to adjust. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m taking it in stride and I realize it will take more time than just 2.5 months to adjust to being away from the military community.
Every so often, it’s empowering to take stock of where you are on this military journey. Ten, even five years, from now you may look back and be somewhere completely different than where you expected or planned you’d be.
I know I definitely am.
I wondered recently how many military spouses have read or asked about the promise our service member have to make in order to join or rejoin the military. To hear my husband tell it, there’s a lot of weight in those words. (I remember; I recited them once too.)
Neither of us wanted to flub them, and they were not taken lightly by anyone we knew. They’re on par with marriage vows, in my opinion.
All your earnestness is behind both.
Every military spouse knows hope. Formally defined, hope is the belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one’s life and implies that the outcome is possible even when there is some evidence to the contrary. From PCS to deployments, funny moments to serious ones, hope is the epicenter of our military way of life.
Eric—
Hi. Well, it’s almost here, the end of this long deployment. Of all the times I thought, “how will I feel when he comes home?” or “wonder what I’m gonna want to say in that last letter,” I never really knew what I know now, in this moment.
Right now, I am simply proud.
Happy Memorial Day? No; that isn’t right. In the words of a good former boss of mine, MAJ U, “Words mean things.”
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