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posted: 02/07/08 at 4:47 PM
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| Nati, thank you so much for sending this to me. I am still having my bad days. My SO heads out to Kuwait and than Iraq
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Keep Asking Yourself, "What's Really Important?"
Realize the Power of Your Own Thoughts.
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it come true---Richard Bach
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway~~ John Wayne
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Stages of Deployment posted: 02/07/08 at 4:54 PM
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Hi Nati, sending this again because I accidentally hit submit. Just wanted to say thank you for posting this for all of us, especially for me. This is my first deployment and although I am older and my SO is older I have hard times. I still cry, but not as much as I did. He set up things so I can make calls to him twice a week and he can call me. I plan on sending cards and letters.
Amazingly he called me a lot before he left since I am moving into his apartment while he is gone. I am glad that he tells me how he is feeling. I worry too much sometimes, but hoping that will all change soon. Trying to finish nursing school. He feels bad that I did not get more time with him and wishes that his deployment had not been until next year, but...
Anyway, thank you for posting this. Family Support Services is helping me to.
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Keep Asking Yourself, "What's Really Important?"
Realize the Power of Your Own Thoughts.
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it come true---Richard Bach
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway~~ John Wayne
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Stages of Deployment posted: 02/07/08 at 5:01 PM
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Hi Nati, sending this again because I accidentally hit submit. Just wanted to say thank you for posting this for all of us, especially for me. This is my first deployment and although I am older and my SO is older I have hard times. I still cry, but not as much as I did. He set up things so I can make calls to him twice a week and he can call me. I plan on sending cards and letters.
Amazingly he called me a lot before he left since I am moving into his apartment while he is gone. I am glad that he tells me how he is feeling. I worry too much sometimes, but hoping that will all change soon. Trying to finish nursing school. He feels bad that I did not get more time with him and wishes that his deployment had not been until next year, but...
Anyway, thank you for posting this. Family Support Services is helping me to.
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Keep Asking Yourself, "What's Really Important?"
Realize the Power of Your Own Thoughts.
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it come true---Richard Bach
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway~~ John Wayne
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posted: 02/09/08 at 2:41 AM
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| thanks for this. i was in the stable, been keeping myself busy phase. but how bout for the people that are deployed?? my bf was so sweet for awhile through emails and now he has been starting fights and being mean. i dont understand him anymore... i try to be understanding of what he is going through but i'm also stressed out here... i feel like he cheated on me over there. i dont know what to do...
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~denial~ posted: 02/15/08 at 10:21 PM
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| WOW...I didn't realize I was in denial until I read this post. My boyfriend is in the Guard and has been talking about the deployment this summer...but I haven't really accepted that it is actually going to happen until he got home from training last weekend with dates, etc. I guess I'm going to hafta pull my head out of the sand and quit playing ostrich.
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posted: 02/20/08 at 6:16 PM
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| I'm new to this but I've been through 2 deployments and going on my 3rd. For me it seems to be getting harder and harder each time he leaves. Right now it hasn't it me yet that he will be leaving in March 08. We had our predeployment meeting and got something similar to this but this is more helpful to me.
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posted: 02/27/08 at 11:38 AM
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| I read through most of it thinking..."thats me...thats me...oh thats definitely me". My SO is away right now unfortunately, and even though he's not in Iraq, everything is still really tough. This past year has gone by fairly quickly but sometimes I feel like its not worth anything because he's hardly been there.
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Back and Forth We Go... posted: 03/07/08 at 7:46 PM
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I can firmly say, that I do not believe that these "stages" have set time periods or borders....
I'm 2 months into the deployment...and there are moments when I'm feeling ok...and then others when I just want to "break" so to speak.
Right now, I'm at that break feeling. I get particularly annoyed right now with students who do not listen to the instructions I give them for their tests, I get frustrated with high school students on campus who are too loud...noise bothers me to no end right now...and there are moments when all I want to do is scream at the top of my lungs.
This damned war needs to be done with.
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Love is like pi. Natural, irrational and very important.
Just waiting for August to roll around!! Yee-haw!
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posted: 03/08/08 at 1:35 PM
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I am in 100% agreement with you. The stages are very helpful and I go back and forth over them to see where I am at...especially on the bad days. Lately I feel alone, helpless, lost... I know we all go back and forth. I get those moments where I can't even talk to my son, but he seems more understanding than I am, and maybe it is because he is a guy and not a woman. I try to find answers to my feelings in the stages, but sometimes you just don't fit in them. You experience something totally different than what you thought you would.
I want this war over. I want him home.
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Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway~~ John Wayne
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no wonder why i am been very emotional !
