whether every one else realizes or not. for every 10-50 soldiers coming home from there away duties there is one that returns to nothing. u see all the time the pixs of soldiers returning and being meet by there gf's and family. but let me tell u another story. as i've been one of the others. i served from 92-96 in the navy in VAW-112 the GoldenHawks. been to the gulf twice, cuba a half dozen times just for starters. now i myself started out with someone and then she dumped me while in boot camp. graduated towards the top of my class. then to A-school to learn to fix jet engines. meet a girl there and got ingaged, graduated went to my duty station in San Diego while i was there my squadron was just getting ready for deployment for the middleeast. since i was basically the only one sort of without someone in the area i voluntared to go early to get everything setup for the rest of the squadron to spend the christmas of 92 with there others. well about a third into the cruise my supposed fiance dumped me on open airwaves no less. then ending up spending the rest of it pretty much crappily. well when the cruise ended i ofcourse ended up voluntaring myself to spend the extra time so others could get off the boat early. that was the first tour over seas and the second went very close to the first one.
now ofcourse the media or anything wont even come close to touching a story like this. but i guess what this is kind of getting around around too is similar too for those few left out. it will get better. another question will arise why would i bring this up. well its been 6 yrs since me and my ex split up. and ofcourse i still love her more than the world. and just a couple weeks ago i got a call out of the blue. saying she was thinking she made a mistake. so maybe we might be working it out. but since then no word from her yet, and it x-mas and here i sit at 4:30 am writing this. oh i could go on but im sure its already to long. but if anyone else here feels they r close to my situation was or is, i just want to let u know ur not truelly alone and i hope u all a merry x-mas. sorry for taking so long to get to the point, but after a case and a half of brew the mind tends to wonders a little. things can only get better. x-mas to everyone.
Topic: to the forgotten soldiers (Read 815 times)