Just 2 weeks.... 2 weeks until my wife will be over here with me!!!! I haven’t seen her in person since like January 4th!!!
it’s only a short visit, but dammit I’ll take what I can get.... Now, please wish upon a star, say a prayer, light a candle, cross your fingers or whatever it is you do that I will get to travel in July to go back to America and see my kids for a couple of weeks....
I need it, I need the time off work, I need a damn vacation, and I need my kids love, energy and enthusiasm to recharge my damn batteries. Hardest part of being a soldier for some is the deployments, or danger. Not trying to sound like a tough guy when I say this, but I’ve been deployed, I’ve very much been in danger, and I’m not worried bout that. That hardest part is not being there for your kids.
they want me around, and lord knows I want to be there. I want to go to ball games, plays, recitals, PTA meetings. But I can’t most often times.
I chose this life before I had kids, they didn’t get a choice, they don’t get to chose to see me or not, and when they’re sad that I’m not there it makes me really have to reconsider doing this anymore.
i got over 14 years of active duty, and less than 6 til I can retire. People always say to me “well, you’ve done this much, so what’s another 6?”
the people that say those things aren’t the ones doing the job, or are the ones away from their kids for months and months on end either.
anyway, got off on a tangent there. Point is, I want to be able to see my kids in July. So please do me a favor and put it out there to the universe. Help me will this into happening.
Take it easy...