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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.
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
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.
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.
I am struggling. Every day, I need to make an intentional decision to keep going. Being intentional with eating healthy (and not snacking on all the extra food that we have in the house), to exercise, and to stay positive. A couple weeks ago I really hit a low point where I was getting depressed and did not see a way out. Everywhere I turned, in the news, Facebook, etc. was COVID-19, and most of it was not positive.
On April 1, I was supposed to take my exam for my certification; I have been studying for it since December 2019. When the exam was cancelled and the exam site closed, I was close to crying. It was hard to see it as a blessing, an opportunity to continue to study, even though I have no idea when I can take my exam.
Editor’s note: This post is sponsored by First Command.
By Mark Steffe, CEO/President of First Command
In this unprecedented time in our country, many of us are taking closer look at our personal finances. A global pandemic is new to us all, but First Command has experience coaching military families through the most volatile times. There’s a tendency at times like this to feel a bit helpless, but there are steps you can take now to organize your financial life and ensure that you are on track for your long-term goals.
Here are some suggestions for how to make the most of the current environment.
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