The Unofficial Scoop on Military Life Whether you're dating, engaged, or married to an active military servicemember or reservist -- or you've just signed up yourself -- you may feel as if you've somehow married the United States military! While there are plenty of orientation books for him, there are almost no handy, user-friendly resources for ...
Married to a Navy chaplain who has served with the Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq, the author focuses on two very different women, Marissa Bootes and Beth Pratt, as their husbands leave for Iraq and they both experience intense indoctrination into life alone.
Written by soldier's wives and the courageous women who themselves serve in the military, these inspiring stories celebrate the lives of military families and the special bond that unites them while supporting each other as they share similar experiences.
As taps echoes across the cookie-cutter housing areas of upstate New York's Fort Drum, the wives turn on the evening news, both hoping for and dreading word of their husbands overseas. It's a ritual played out on military bases across the nation as the waiting wives of Karen Houppert's extraordinary new book endure a long, lonely, and difficult ...
Essential for military communities, wives, fiancs, or parents of military, this comprehensive handbook gives resources and practical advice for all branches of the military and their loved ones facing separation by deployment.
As a wedding consultant, who specializes in military weddings, I hear brides, who are trying to plan military weddings, lament about the lack of information available about military weddings. Brides are marrying later and are better educated. Even if they are hiring a wedding consultant to plan a military wedding, the brides still want to know as ...
As an activist, Raday ran away from cops dressed in riot gear. Then, much to her surprise, she fell in love with one. "Love in Condition Yellow" tells the story of their uncommon marriage.
"Help! I'm a Military Spouse" is not a book about being the perfect military spouse. And it's not about rebelling against military life. It's about creatively taking advantage of the military life's opportunities to fulfill one's own dreams. Military lifestyle columnists, workshop presenters and longtime military spouses themselves, Kathie ...
Moreau pens the compelling inside story about how one group of Vietnam wives coped with losing husbands, raising families, surviving on their own, and the endless waiting for their lives to get back to normal.
This cookbook is a collection of recipes, anecdotal stories, and vintage photographs that trace the history and unique contributions of American military wives from the past 200 years.
The authors estimate marriage and marital dissolution trends from 1996 to 2005, and the effects of recent deployments on risk of ending a marriage. Marital dissolution rates across services and components are currently similar to those seen in 1996, when the demands on the military were measurably lower. Service members who were deployed had a ...
As Hines speaks of war through the eyes of a military wife, her goal is to let other wives--from the general's wife to the private's wife--know they are not alone in their worry and frustration.
WAR AND LOVE takes us into the field operating rooms just behind the murderous front lines of World War II. Howard Jones, then a 33-year-old surgeon, Army Medical Corps, records his first experience:
In April 1969, Linda Moore-Lanning watched her husband, Lt. Michael Lee Lanning, board a Greyhound bus that would take him to a military flight scheduled to deposit him in Vietnam. As he boarded the bus, Lee told her, 'It's only for a year'. Moore-Lanning struggled to believe her husband's words. "Waiting: One Wife's Year of the Vietnam War" is ...
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