Working on a chapter for Weekend Warrior No More and writing a section about what Guard and Reserve families can do to protect or keep their small business afloat when the service member is deployed. If you or someone you know has been in this situation – self-employed and a Reserve or Guard member who

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One more sign that we are winning in Iraq…. Safer Iraq draws foreign investors

Saw this article online at the Jackson Sun. We are expecting quite a few National Guard units to be deploying out of Tennessee over the course of the next several months including the largest National Guard unit in the state, which will impact a lot of Middle Tennessee families. Another great reason to participate in

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Just saw this news story on Fox. If you wonder why news from Iraq seems to be so few and far between these days, it’s because the media is running out of negative things to report. Our military are doing what they set out to do, and progress is continuing to be made. Bush Says

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A thousand apologies for not writing more consistently this summer! My excuse this week has been that my husband and son have been away visiting our family in Louisiana and I have had my nose to the grindstone, finishing up one project and working on another, as well as many details for Wives of Faith

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I have waited a couple of weeks to write this post. Mainly because I wanted the time to really think about what I wanted to say. My husband is at his weekend drill today. A year ago he was in Iraq. And five years ago, March 19, the day President Bush announced our country was

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My friend Sammi, one of our Wives of Faith ladies, emailed earlier today. She lives with her husband at Camp Pendleton in California and she said there are fires all around them and there’s a good possibility they will have to leave their apartment. Her husband deploys in less than two weeks for his second

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Yesterday, on SpouseBuzz, there was a blog discussion about whether those who do not have family in the military, or are not directly affected by the war, whether they even think about military families or the troops or is there such a disconnect now between those who serve and those who don’t that our military

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You may find this post a little odd, but please stay with me, I have a reason for honoring and recognizing a beer company of all things. We just got back from our vacation to Orlando and it was absolutely wonderful. We stayed in a great condo at a great price thanks to Armed Forces

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My husband is on his way home. I got his call last night while I was at choir practice. It was very late and he was very tired but he told me they had made it. He was in Kuwait and it won’t be long before he’s back in the States and then back with

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