As you may know, I'm a military spouse. I never really thought about it much until 9/11 when my husband started sleeping at the armory a few nights a week after working his regular job. The first deployment to Iraq really brought it home.
I've been with Mark since high school. I still have all the letters he wrote me from basic training. But we were together almost exactly 12 years before I really thought about the military being a part of our life because it was "part time" in the National Guard. His brother is an active duty Marine and I always considered his wife a military spouse. My oldest sister was an active duty army wife for a time in her first marriage.
Sometime in the early 80's, Then President Ronald Reagan decided that the Friday before Mother's Day would be known as Military Spouse Appreciation Day. I never knew about it until 2005 when my husband was deployed to Baghdad, Iraq.
Tomorrow I know my friend's have something up their sleeve. They keep hinting at it. I have to work and work is letting me wear my photo pin of my husband on my uniform. It's normally a no-no but tomorrow is going to be a fun day at work for other reasons so they're relaxing the dress code a little bit.
So, to all the other military spouses out there that may read this, have a good day tomorrow.
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Oh military spouse we appreciate you, oh yes we do. of course we have something up our sleeves. Can you expect anything less from us? :)
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