First Lady Michele Obama was championing the rights of military families during the campaign; it will be interesting to see what she accomplishes now that her husband is president, and whether her husband’s actions in office toward the military (bringing home troops too early, closing Gitmo, repealing the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy) may actually

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(**crossposted at Wives of Faith) The emails and Facebook messages have already been flowing in… “how did it go?” “Oh, I wish I could have been there. Was it great?” “I was praying for everyone, can’t wait to hear all about it!” Normally when you come back from a conference you are ready to share

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Hey everyone, Well, we are in day 3 of this year’s Annual Training where my husband gets to go do his military thing and I stay here and do everything else. It’s usually not such a big deal because I know he is working hard where he is, but he made the mistake of calling

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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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Well, the Fox17 series they were doing on our family has finished with this week’s segments they aired over Thanksgiving. I have to admit I cried every time I watched them – especially the Homecoming part. Laura Faber, the anchor for the station and the reporter responsible for the series, said there weren’t many dry

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Corrie asked me to pass on the word about the American Freedom Festival, sponsored by the American Freedom Foundation, which takes place this weekend, Saturday, Nov. 10, in Washington, D.C. The American Freedom Foundation (http://www.americanfreedomfoundation.org/ ) is a 501(c)3 public benefit corporation organized to honor veterans of America’s armed forces and raise money and awareness

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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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