This is a poem i found..........


If You're Not in Love with a Soldier.

If you're not in love with a soldier, you can't know adventure. You don't know smelly gray PT uniforms that require daily washing. You can't understand green and brown camouflaged bags flooding your bedroom floor.

If you're not in love with a soldier, you can't understand the meaning of the phrase going to the field and the weeks or months you spend away from each other.

If you're not in love with a soldier you can never imagine the hole in your heart when the phone call comes. "Honey I am leaving tomorrow to go overseas I don't know how long I will be gone or exactly where I am going, but I want you to know I Love You Always!"

If you're not in love with a soldier, you don't know what its like to say that final goodbye. You don't know what it really means to be glued to the television. You don't understand fear and you can't possibly understand the sleepless nights of endless crying wondering if you will ever see the love of your life alive again.

If you're not in love with a soldier, you can't know the immense joy, the uncontrollable smile, or the butterflies in your stomach when you see your soldier march onto the parade field upon redeployment, you can't understand the self-control it takes to stand a mere thirty feet away from your man as some higher up gives a seemingly endless welcome home speech while all the soldiers stand in formation. You don't know what it is like to have the second first kiss or what its like to experience puppy love all over again.

If you're not in love with a soldier, you can't truly understand how to make every moment count because you never know when that phone call may come again.
If you're not in love with a soldier, you can never really understand how very delicate life is!!

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CH-47 SI

They must find it difficult...

Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. --Gerald Massey

Thanks for the poem. I should send it to my girlfriend. She's Canadian, but she married an American soldier who she met in Korea. I think she could relate to it.