I know. I could not imagine going through that. We just found out that my step-brother, Kenny joined the bomb squad. He leaves for Iraq in March.

That's so sweet, Star!

That is so sweet!!!

aww thats sweet. i cant wait to make a welcome home sign, when companys come home on base here they put em up all along the roads on base. Some people get white sheets to spray paint and hang on the fence. im gonn amake a poster , i think i wanna make one to pu ton the garage with balloons when he comes home too. My sisters hubby gets home today from a 15 mth long deployment to iraq!

Diane, that is such a good idea. Thats what these signs were, like sheets and big pieces of poster board with spray paint. It looked as if some people had taken the time to welcome home everyone...you could tell that some were done by the same people. That makes me sad to think that they might not have had anyone to come home to. Just the idea makes me teary eyed.

Laura, my name's Heather... It seems weird to here myself refered to as Star!!!

These poor men that have to leave their families for such long periods of time......it just isn't fair. Not only are they in constant fear for their own lives while they are gone but they also have to worry about the wives and children that they leave behind. Man I count my blessings everyday that I am not in that situation, and I honestly feel so bad for all the people that are. They are truly special and unselfish people!

yeah we gotta do what we gotta do, they all knew signing up that this was in there future, i thought i could handle it until reality hit , but now im coping just fine , aside from jason missing jordynnes first teeth, first steps, etc. They have great technology now and i go ta video clip of jordynne walking that he got to see, and they get internet privelages so i talk to him almost everyday so thats what keeps us wives going is the chance to get to talk to them. sryt my typings off i got a cat climbing all over my lap and stuff as im typing lol.

Ahh Heather that is so sweet of you. Honestly, we always gte embaressed by it, were just like everybody else. I mean we get a lot back by him doing this.

Ahh I cant wait to make welcome home signs. Im getting bree a shirt made that has his picture on it with my daddy my hero.

I cant wait!!

I wanna make t-shirts, hopefully i can find the stuff, but my friend tanja can help me too buy stuff on the german economy. i wanna like make I love you daddy shirt for jordynne and a hero one for joseph, i dunno if i will do one for myself though, i might just dress up really nice! I got red , white and blue and yellow streamers today because i know when it gets closer to the guys coming home they are gonna be sold out with everyone else getting them. I cant wait to decorate, my sister decorated for her hubby and made him a special dinner tonight well prob no tyet its not dinner time there yet but her hubby just got back this morning, she posted a few pics that she could, her sons having milk issues right now and has bad bad bad diarhea so she wasnt able to get alot of pics like she wanted to but man i cant wait for the coming home ceremony, my sisters husbands one looked alot nicer and better then the ones here in germany, i went to bravo companys in august when some of jasons friends came back and it made me all excited for his coming home. we are already planning and we still got 3 mths left!

No kidding!!

I haven't giving it much thought until I actually joined this forum and met you ladies. The sacrifices you all make should be commended!!

Sorry Heather! I have an awful memory and I'm paranoid that I'll call somebody by an incorrect name. I'll try super-hard to memorize yours

HeatherHeatherHeatherHeatherHeatherHeather ....

Yea Steven has made me promise I will do everything to be there when he gets home and hang one of those. Hell be returning to Camp Leguene. Diane you only have three months left? seems like it was so much more lol. Thatll fly by. My friend Sharon has about 6-7 weeks left. I cant wait to get to that point.

I hate watching CNN for the latest on the war... but i do!

I tear up everytime i hear that another soldier...... you know

I cry when i hear that song by Dixie Chicks "traveling soldier"

Dianes husbands coming home for mid deployment leave I believe?
I could be wrong. Personally, I dont get how Army wives do it.. 15 months!! Id go NUTS!!

And tim Mcgraws new one makes me sob like a baby.. I seriously have to change it right away. lol

Yeah that Tim McGraw song gets me too.

Danni, so are you coming up to Camp Leguene? I only live about 2 hours from there.

Did anyone see the news about the college kids who died in the fire? That is my county. So sad

no he comes home for the end of his deployment, they do like 6-7-8 mth deployments here so far. they talked about extended em but so far none of them got extended but some guys are redeploying that just got back in august.

lucky butt lol. i cant listen to that tim mcgraw song either. if my friends in the car she changes it b4 i realize its on

I imagine me at Brians funeral..

Im so morbid..

Wow Vanessa, that is pretty morbid. Big hugs to you