Saturday, January 28, 2006 2:09 AM
ryanseals
So true
I had to put another update, since I just read
CaliValleyGirl's post about
"The Graduating Class of OEF VI and OIF3."
This post is a must-read. It is absolutely right on about the mixed
feelings you have at the end of a deployment. There's joy, obviously,
that Ryan is home. But also, there's this, at the end of things, as
Britt wrote:
"... I will miss my fellow bloggers and non-blogging interne-t
friends who have accompanied me on this journey, either by me passively
reading their blogs, or actually communicating with them. It's weird to
spend almost everyday with someone, and be a part of their life, and
then * poof *, they're gone. ...
"The flip side of the redeploying coin, is that once the soldiers come
home and we have our lives back, we lose the connection we once had
with many people. We were all thrown together into this deployment
experience and have accompanied each other, but like with graduation,
and the signing of yearbooks, and promises to keep in touch, the
reality is that without the cement of the deployment, we will no longer
really be a part of each other's lives."
It's a sad thing, really, to not talk as much anymore, circumstances of
why we talked aside. Man, how I love those girls.
My girls. My battle buddies.
-- Christy