That makes sense to me. I admire them. I think perhaps it is harder for them to leave their families than it is for us.
During our 1999 - 2000 furlough, we lived in Taft and shopped at the BiLo in Fayetteville.
What a small world. I started school in Taft. My aunt was the first grade teacher. Where we lived until I was 9 years old was a Taft address (my grandfather’s farm). My Dad taught Chemistry at the high school there before WWII. That is when he was conscripted to work at Huntsville arsenal where they made Mustard Gas. I was born at Delrose, TN. and my parents moved us to Frankewin when I was 3 mo. and then to Cash Point and then to the tenant house on my grandparent’s farm. I’ve moved 38 times in my life, so I have many “homes”, but only one eternal home.