Tonight I watched the news along with all of my FB friends and the rest of the world as they announced the death of Osama bin Laden. I remember 10 years ago watching the Towers collapse and the horror that unfolded from those attacks on 9/11. I remember specifically sitting on the couch that night

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Saw an interesting article in last week’s Navy Times that backs up what this Navy reservist wife has been saying for the last two years. Overt discrimination in employment and re-employment stemming from employer ignorance of reservists’ legal rights has diminished, but more subtle discrimination is on the rise, says the executive director of the

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Summer has begun and I have to say, in the last several days, it’s been hard to get on the computer! I NEED to get on the computer but we’ve been having too much fun doing summer stuff.

UPDATE: Here is the survey link I promised. If you are a Guard or Reserve member currently unemployed, or your spouse who is a Guard or Reserve member is, please take my survey. Next month will mark one year that my husband has been without a full time job. His position was eliminated by his

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My friend Angela, a sister Seabee wife, passed this on to me in an email this morning. I had seen rumblings in the news and tweets on twitter over the last couple of days but this week has been so busy, I hadn’t really paid full attention to it. I don’t believe the media should

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Here’s a good story I ran across today on one Army Reserve unit is using You Tube and other social media tools to reach a wider audience. Fort Snelling Army Reserve program first on YouTube When I was in Iraq in 2003, my photographer and I stayed with an Army Reserve MPAD (Mobile Public Affairs

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Had to post this… will get back to my current series later today… Last One Turn Out the Lights: Marines Quietly Begin Leaving Bases in Iraqi Cities WASHINGTON — When Marine Maj. Gen. John Kelly deployed to Iraq in February, the violence had fallen so low in Anbar province that he began figuring out how

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I don’t have a lot of words today. It’s been seven years, but for many Americans who lived through that day on September 11, 2001, it will always feel like a recent memory, not a forgotten one. At least I hope it will continue to be that way. This year I made myself sit down

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

After quite a LONG while, I am happy to let you know that the faith-based military news site I started publishing almost four years ago, is now back LIVE! AGreaterFreedom.com was started after I got back from my two trips to Iraq in 2003. After the book I did with Oliver North came out in

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