[Mama_Bear]

I do want to give my heartfelt thanks to all the Military Spouses out there.

Ditto to what you said.

I was not a military wife, but I was a military daughter. My mom was a career Navy wife, moving from duty station to duty station for 20 years. It's not an easy life but, as you and your wife know, the military is a family and they support and take care of their own. I know that my mother would not have changed a minute of the 20 years "she" put into the Navy ...... isn't that right, Grammy Bear? :-)

[MistyCA]

I was a military wife and so proud to be. My son was born 1 month after his father left for Vietnam. I took a roll of film a day and learned how to develop the pictures myself (in the bathroom) so that I could send some every single day. I remember making sooo many cookies and wrapped each one separately in saran wrap and packed them in popcorn so they wouldn't get messed up in the trip. I was so incredibly in awe of the guys and gals who went over to Vietnam knowing how much each and everyone of them gave up to do it. There is just no way we could ever thank them all enough for what they do. :) I am such a wimp...I remember being so thankful that I was a girl and didn't have to get drafted. I don't think there is anything we can ever do to adequately reflect our pride in our military men and women.

[Grammy Bear]

Amen to that. It was a real experience for a girl who had been raised in a very small New England town. I met people from all walks of life and made some life long friends. Also had a chance to travel back and forth across the country and even did one "tour" overseas. (Guam) Lived in a quonset hut with a banana tree in the yard along with shrews, giant Afican snails and gheckos all over the place!! Wouldn't have missed it for anything.