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What does it mean to you to be a military wife? as submitted by Stella Post
Being
a military wife gives me a double sense of great pride and honor.
I first feel proud to have married such a wonderful, gorgeous man
with such a good heart and values who understands and accepts the
responsibility of a family so readily. These qualities alone
would be enough to stay in his corner for the rest of my life, but
adding to this is the sense of pride I have in him for being altruistic. It
takes someone very, very special willing to make the kind of every day
sacrifices for his country, particularly when many have no idea just
how far reaching those sacrifices can be.
Who in America
wants to live across the world in 120 degree heat wearing combat gear
while bullets are whizzing by their head? Who among all of the
men we've know in our lives would be willing to go without the tender
touch of their wife, the smile of their children, the creature
comforts of the colorful landscape of America and live among camel
spiders and sand? How many of your friends are married to a man
who's deployed twice or more to the same region for a tour of duty
without having been drafted? What politician could fathom jumping
out of an airplane and then going home to his wife at the end of the
day as if nothing unusual happened or driving along a road and
hoping that pile of trash or empty car isn't hiding an explosive
device? What kind of man would be willing to slip in
undetected to the territory of an enemy so brutalized by violence
that beheading an adversary means nothing? Who will go?
The
sad answer today is "very few." Relatively very few
men in America have the kind of courage and strength to withstand the
pressure of these kinds of sacrifices. And I, wow, I married one
of them.
I
don't really want to talk about what it feels like to be away from a
person that I want to hug and kiss and laugh with every day. I
don't want to complain about wanting to have his little baby
RIGHT NOW but knowing if I did, the timing of his deployment would
deprive him of the chance to hear his baby's first cry. I don't
want to really even think about having a husband but not having him
with me or going everywhere alone.
You
know why?
When
I think of him and what he does and see what other people's husbands
do, I'm so proud that I married the guy that I did. And I know
that while he's out there, he's missing all the same things as I am,
but even worse, he's stuck in the middle of a dust storm opening the
beef jerky I sent and doing his job. I will always feel that I
married a better man than my friends just because I know he has this
rare ability to make a sacrifice so that America can live freely,
safely, comfortably. That's the kind of man I married.
When
you ask what it means for me to be a military wife, I would
tell you that it means I am a part of something greater than myself
and even bigger than my marriage. I am absolutely honored by
the exclusivity of being a woman God thought could handle being an
Army wife and amazed that He would see fit to pair me with a
man of honor.
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