IF YOU'RE NOT IN LOVE WITH A SOLDIER

[AFgirl32]

IF YOU'RE NOT IN LOVE WITH A SOLDIER

If you're not in love with a soldier, you can't know adventure. You don't
know smelly gray PT uniforms that require a daily washing. You can't
understand green and brown camouflaged bags flooding your bedroom floor.

If you're not in love with a soldier, you can't understand the meaning of the
phrase "going to the field" and the weeks you spend away from each other.

If you're not in love with a soldier, you can never imagine the hole in your
heart when that phone call comes? "Honey, I am leaving tomorrow to go
overseas. I don't know how long I will be gone or exactly where I am going,
but I want you to know that I love you - always!"

If you're not in love with a soldier, you don't know what it's like to say
that final good-bye. You don't know what it really means to be glued to the
television. You don't understand fear and you can't possibly understand the
sleepless nights of endless crying wondering if you will ever see the love
of your life alive again.

If you're not in love with a soldier, you can't know the immense joy, the
uncontrollable smile, or the butterflies in your stomach when you see your
soldier march into the family waiting area upon redeployment. You can't
understand the self-control it takes to stand on the other side of the room
as some higher-up gives a seemingly endless welcome home speech while all
the soldiers stand in formation. You don't know what it's like to have
that second first kiss or what it's like to experience puppy love all over.

If you're not in love with a soldier, you can't truly understand how to make
every moment count because you never know when that phone call may come again.

If you're not in love with a soldier, you can never really understand how
very delicate life really is!

I dont know who wrote it but its nothing short of the truth...

[Steff Bo Beff]

I don't really like things like this.

[MS234755]

Originally Posted by Steff Bo Beff I don't really like things like this.

word. his pt stuff REEKS, and even though i miss almost everything about him, that damn smell never actually made the list. i kinda envy the ladies who don't know that smell

[Navywife85]

Originally Posted by Steff Bo Beff I don't really like things like this.

i agree...s

[**Emily**]

I think that a lot of people know the things described in the above posts who aren't "in love with a soldier" My brother was a Marine until the end and I knew a lot of those things just from living with him, same with my father.

You don't have to be in love with someone. Loved ones know a lot of those experiences.

[**Emily**]

Originally Posted by AFgirl32 If you're not in love with a soldier, you can never really understand how very delicate life really is!

I think I missed that line my first reading.

I was not in love with my brother but I did love him. And above all I know first hand how very delicate life really is.

The quote really upsets me

[Jennifer Lynn]

[Roboto]

I thought there was a specific section for things like this. Am I wrong?

[Meghan]

I agree, these types of things rub me the wrong way.

[Truegrits81]

Life is delicate in general.