Thank you all for the warm welcome back!

Thank you also for your good thoughts for the husband.

We expect it to be an 18 month deployment beccause so many are getting extended but we hope for it to be only twelve months. My husband isn't really into politics but I know he is very tired of fighting this war. He has been at it for 3 years and he just has had enough. He is not alone though many feel the same and we count ourselves lucky that he has made it home alright each time so far. For many, even many we know, it has been far worse. He is proud of what he does and he doesnt do it for the president or congress or politics he does it beccause his job as a soldier is part of the vision that is America. It is the vision that we have a strong competent military to protect us and keep us safe. He trys not to think of all the ifs and whys about Iraq or any other thing than just that he is part of the vision we all hold dear. That we have strong, brave men and women to keep us safe.
Still he is due to seperate from the Army on July 23, 2007. He deploys June 11th so he will be stop lossed most of this deployment. We don't like stop loss to say the least. Our lives demand, however that we just go with it. Alot of things come up that we don't like but we just go with it beccause we know that this is the way of things in the military and we accept it and feel how we feel on our own.

I know I will be okay while he is gone but I feel like I can use the extra support of people I trust. You all make me feel warm and I trust you so I need you now both those with military experience and ones without to get my mind off it. Im glad to know that I will have you all to be there for me.