Happy New Year to Our Boys and Girls in the Military

Courtesy of American Conservative Daily and Amy Proctor:

The slideshow is large, 29.4 MBs, and takes about 1 minute to download/open using DSL. I hope you find this tribute as enjoyable to watch as it was to make.

(Amy did a fabulous job and you really need to see this video…)

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The new year is only a day away and as always, we wish a Happy New Year to our friends and family. As a military family, we have spent many New Years apart (Christmases, Easters, anniversaries and birthdays as well). As an Army wife, knowing too well the feelings that accompany deployments and separations during such occasions that would otherwise be festive, I cannot help but think of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and their families.

Soldiers live their every day lives in a way that is foreign to the average civilian. Their’s is a life of obedience, submission, physically taxing work, sacrifice and danger. They don’t whine; they leave that to state side partisan debates. They don’t cower; they face their fears head on. They don’t run from responsibility; they run headlong into it. They spend their lives training for war, weathering the elements of cold and heat.

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