jacob
No matter how many Christmas lights or stockings you hang or how many little Christmas trees you put up a bunker will never feel like Christmas.
2010-12-21 13:32:21 / Rating: 527.5 / 
Story archives - tag: "military"
7Mondays
The funny looks from my wife and the lack of morning traffic on the way to work should have clued me in, but it wasn't until I saw the empty parking out that I realized it was Saturday.
2010-08-31 12:12:39 / Rating: 412.75 /
seven
My brother left Iraq with one leg, severe PTSD, and a heroin addiction.
2010-07-02 14:11:32 / Rating: 297.5 /
Emma
I'll listen to you and sympathize about missing your husband, but don't complain to me about a long time.
2008-11-18 13:14:31 / Rating: 331.5 /
Military Wife
As I walked away from the airport alone with my head held high, shoulders back, and eyes red from crying, I finally knew what it meant to be a military wife.
2008-11-13 13:07:01 / Rating: 629.75 /
Rusty
I went to college to dodge this war, and now I'm going to war to pay for college.
2008-06-10 10:30:23 / Rating: 675.25 /
Thumbtack
As the Senior Drill Instructor howled corrections at me for the umpteenth time that morning I tried to remember if my recruiter mentioned any of this when we talked about me going to college and letting Uncle Sam pay for it.
2007-11-26 12:34:31 / Rating: 308.75 /
Chris
I have suicidal thoughts almost daily, but I don't do anything about them because I've only got two months left in the Marine Corps, and I'm hoping that's the problem.
2007-08-06 17:03:27 / Rating: 398.75 /
Hello Sailor
Since my man joined the military, I smile at anyone in a uniform.
2007-05-30 13:37:02 / Rating: 502.75 /
dan r
And so, seven hours before going to VietNam, I went to jail instead for smoking weed grown from seed smuggled back from VietNam.
2007-05-24 23:42:39 / Rating: 656.5 /
Lizzy
Tears poured down my cheeks when I heard my Dad was going to Iraq.
2007-04-11 10:41:09 / Rating: 594.5 /