Last year nearly “30,000 marriages”
ended last year, all those marriages where of military families that had
severed overseas in combat. My family wasn’t one of them. I have a father who
is in the military. He wasn’t around a lot sometimes. He has working in the Middle East and here in
Iowa. My mom has raised my brother and a lot by herself. What it has been is hard for both sides of their
marriage and on if they should stay together in this marriage. They have but it’s
been a lot of work.
When you spend a lot of time with a
person you come to know them and their habits, but if that person was to leave
and go to war then come back they never come back the same. Sometimes they lose a leg or an arm. Even when
they do come back physically sound mentally they may not be. Nearly “20%
of the total returning troops” from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder. http://operationmilitaryfamily.com/guides/mental-health/ That can put pressure on a marriage or on a
family member. Post-Traumatic stress
disorder is a reaction to a traumatic event in your life, like combat. It can
cause many mental issues like the inability to express feeling and cope with
change. http://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/pages/what-is-ptsd.asp
My family is truly lucky. We are still one family. After over 5 years
together of my dad being gone we are still a family. It had taken a lot of hard
work on are part but it has been worth it. My uncle has also severed in the military;
he has severed overseas 3 times but has also had a divorce and is into his
second marriage. It was not his fault that the marriage ended it was his wife’s
choice and he tried to stop it but she had moved to Texas already by the time
he could come home.
The army has a saying “there is strong,
then theirs army strong.” I like to
believe that even if I haven’t ever really been in the army that I am army
strong just for my father. He is my idol in his strength to leave his family
and go to war. My mother is also army strong in that she can stay here and
raise to children and support him. She is home front strong and I idolize her
from it. So luck is just really hard
work to stay a family.
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