How to destroy a soldier’s life

I came across an article on Salon entitled “How to leave a soldier” that has apparently been making ripples across the blogosphere. It absolutely infuriated me, and I knew I had to write about it. Before I get into the article, though, let me explain some things in the interest of full disclosure. My significant other is a Marine. We live together in North Carolina while he’s stationed at Camp Lejeune. The first year of our relationship was long distance, with him in North Carolina and me in Florida. We’re together now, but the Corps brings us apart occasionally for training and such, and of course, for deployments. Never, ever would I do something so cowardly as to send him a Dear John letter while he was deployed. But that’s exactly what this woman

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a sailor’s wife

The Soldier’s Wife

When she was a girl, her dreams were bold, as bold as her fine, free gaze;
And every gift of grace and mind was hers in her younger days.
When she was a girl, a golden girl, with a sould as fine as fire.
She could outshine the brightest jewel that a rich man’s love might buy
her.
Yes hers could ahve been the glittering path through a careless, carefree
life,

But she fell in love with a soldier, so she became a soldier’s wife.

Away from the home of her childhood she marched at her husband’s side,
For she chose a wide and winding road when she became a bride.
And sometimes the road was a hard one, so different from what she had
planned;
And sometimes she wept for the home she had left as she lay in a foreign
land;
And sometimes her steps would grow weary as she followed the drum and the fife;
But she set about making the world her home because she was a soldier’s
wife.

She learned to build a hearth for them wherever her man was sent;
And she knelt to plant a garden every time he pitched their tent.
Yes, she always planted a garden though she never saw it grow,
For she knew before the flowers came that she would have to go.
But she left each garden gladly though it cut her like a knife,
For she hoped it might bring some comfort to another soldier’s wife.

To the hardships in her married life she brought one simple truth,
A promise that once was spoken in the ancient words of Ruth:
“Wherever you go, I will go. Wherever you lodge, I will lodge;
They people shall be my people and thy God shall be my God.”
She shared his joys and sorrows as they made their way through life,
For she was proud to love a soldier and to be a soldier’s wife.

She bore the weight of worrying what fate might hold in store;
And the wordless fear of waiting when her soldier went to war;
And the nights that she spent fearing that her waiting was in vain;
And the pain of wanting someone she might never hold again.
But she bore his children gladly through uncertainty and strife,
And they never heard her crying, for she was a soldier’s wife.

She raised a soldier’s family with the faith her love had taught her;
And she gave the pride she had inside to her son and to her daughter;
And she taught them to love freedom and to know what it was worth,
As they helped her plant her gardens in the corners of the earth.
And she never wished for better than the road they marched through life,
Because she was as much soldier as she was a soldier’s wife.
*by Caroline Franklin Berry *

It is a cold, craven and heartless thing to do to a soldier. Worked with a WW2 vet many years ago who related a story about a “Dear John’’ letter. This guy was an 8th. Air Force navigator in a B-17. Some young kid in his squadron , a waist-gunner I believe got one. Kid was acting odd, quiet and ‘’strange’’ as my friend said. Returning from the mission the kid just suddenly swung the .50 caliber to the side, took off his chute and jumped before anyone could stop him. My said that really shook him up. Guys in any combat situation must live in dread of one of these damn letters(or e-mails.)

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Oh I've never heard that one before. "Oh but I'M not like that, " or "there are plenty of good women...., " etc etc etc blah blah blah.

The fact is, American women manipulate, steal from and ruin men so frequently that it's breathtaking. It's the only legalized fraud. Whether it's a fake abuse claim or fraudulent child support.

There was actually an organized prostitution ring here at Fort Benning a few years ago. Run by Army wives. I would really love the media and our lawmakers to finally acknowledge the shenanigans by women instead of the constant worshiping and coddling.

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