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May is Military Spouse Appreciation Month!
This month feels a little bit different for me this year, since my husband will be retiring this fall. We are both in the process of figuring out what life after the military will look like for us.
Walking the Walk
So there I was, two Christmases ago, sitting at my in-laws’ table at the Iowa farmhouse, reading the local newspaper after the dishes had been washed and put away. All of a sudden, I saw it.
Tucked in among the tractors for sale, current corn and soybean selling rates, rain predictions for that week, and pictures of the prize-winning farm animals, was a small blurb about the Iowa section of the American Discovery Trail, or the ADT—a complete walking/hiking/bicycling trail that runs east to west across the entire United States, from one coast to the other.
9 Mistakes Military Renters Make
We talk a lot about the risks and rewards of home buying and home selling. We don’t focus as much attention on renters and the risks associated with renting a home. And as military families, renting property is a pretty common thing as not all of us can or want to commit to buying a home at each duty station. So, let’s take a minute to talk about things we should be avoiding when renting.
Here are nine mistakes military renters make:
A Resilient Nation Built on HOPE
America has always been shaped by our resilience. We’ve endured multiple wars: one that gave us our freedom, one that threatened to tear us apart, and two that involved attacks on US soil.
We’ve faced economic depression, fought against civil injustices, and worked for a better tomorrow. Even now, as we face an unprecedented pandemic that has turned our lives upside down, we are working together and taking care of each other.
News 6 Mashup: May 18, 2020
Here are the top stories for the week of May 18, 2020, straight from AWN News 6 Correspondent, Jolene McNutt:
• 30,000 Military Moves Will Happen in Next Two Months
* Connecting Patients with Behavioral Health
* Nine Military Teens Celebrate Prom Safely
* WWII Veterans Virtually Remember V-E Day
EYB: Fort Benning, GA
We here at Army Wife Network want to take the some of the guesswork out of the need-to-knows about duty stations around the globe. Hence, our Post With the Most series. In this particular blog, we will be showcasing information related to Fort Benning, Georgia.
Fort Benning has appeared in numerous films and documentaries including Black Hawk Down, We Were Soldiers, and Your Mother Wears Combat Boots.
A New Normal
If you had asked me at the beginning of the year if I thought this is how 2020 would go, I would probably have thought you were crazy. Near the end of December, I heard about the alarm being sounded by the Chinese doctor in Wuhan who eventually died from COVID-19, but I didn’t understand then what he was trying to warn the rest of the world about. Now that it has migrated to America, it’s quite sad that we weren’t able to understand the full extent of what China was experiencing at the end of 2019.
In Illinois, we have been asked to shelter in place since the middle of March. My son was already home from school that week before the shelter-in-place order went into effect. The weekend before, we didn’t do much. We stopped at Home Depot for our usual kids’ workshop, but it had been canceled. The employee told us that Home Depot had canceled them nationwide to avoid large gatherings of kids, especially in bigger cities. We got our workshop kit and left.
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