So, okay... I know all of us military spouses are proud, and strong, and loyal, and blah blah freaking blah. But are we not allowed to complain as well? Well i'm going to. On a whim i just typed in "i hate deployment club" in google and noticed that not alot of people posted anything. Why not?? Are we in such a state of fear that we don't have the right to voice our own opinions anymore? I thought we lived in a country that enforced freedom of speech. Isn't that why our loved ones are going over there risking and even losing their lives?
Not even a week after I married my husband, he got pulled for a deployment. A deployment I might add, that he was supposed to be getting out of. So, okay wonderful. I've been married for like 5 minutes but sure! I'll give up all my important moments why not? When he left, I read the story on Jeff Hanks. He was the soldier who refused to re-deploy to Afghanistan until he got treatment for his post traumatic stress/combat fatigue. I then joined a group called the IVAW as did my husband, who may get in trouble for doing so. Am i the only one who sees that we are all getting metophoric duct tape accross our mouths?
I guess the real reason i'm venting tonight is because my husband told me to watch spike tv because they're having a usc fight to fund wounded vets treatment at Ft. Hood,TX. Okay... I absolutly hate that we have wounded vets in the first place. I furthermore hate that we need to raise money for our surviving heroes. And even more so, i hate that i'm seeing on cnn that we may be in Afghanistan well into 2015. WHY??? If we aren't accomplishing anything over there (hello? modern day vietnam ya think?) shouldn't we be getting the hell out? then we wouldn't have as many wounded vets AND we wouldn't be contributing to the debt by having to pay everyone for going there (me personally, yeah the money is nice and all but, given the choice, i'd be delighted to be poor and have my husband home). Am I the only one seeing this? If i'm wrong please correct me. But be careful, i'm just a spoiled housewife. Hell, in some states, i'm not even allowed to drive at night....
