September 2004 - Posts

• Why Blog?

  There was an article today on soldiers and their blogs , and it occurred to me that, for many people, blogs are still a new and rather novel idea. What is a blog anyway? For those of you who knew my husband before he was ArmySteve, this seems like a simple, Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 28, 2004 4:17 PM by msmith | 2 Comments

• A Soldier's Wife

  It is hard to describe what life is like for those of us left at home to people who don't have a loved one in “the sandbox.” People try to understand, but unless you have walked a mile in the shoes of a soldier's wife, it is hard to comprehend Read More... Posted Monday, September 27, 2004 1:18 PM by msmith | 2 Comments

• A Hero of Beslan

  This post has nothing to do with the Army, or Iraq, or even the United States. It is about an old Greek man who lived in Russia. Yiannis Kanidis was 74 years old when he died last week in Beslan, along with hundreds of others, when the school was taken Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 22, 2004 3:17 AM by msmith | 2 Comments

• Stories From Daddy: Dealing with Children and a Deployment

  One of the hardest things about this deployment has been hearing how much Ilyana misses her Daddy. She talks about him every day, and when she got to talk to him on the phone the other day, all she kept saying was, “I miss you, Daddy,” over Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 21, 2004 12:47 PM by msmith | 2 Comments

• Bush's Secret Call Up: Baseless Accusations or Not Such a Secret

  John Kerry made headlines this week when he said that George W. Bush has a secret plan to call up more Guard and Reserve troops in the months after the election. The Bush camp is calling this idea "false and ridiculous." If we can get past the politics Read More... Posted Monday, September 20, 2004 12:21 AM by msmith | 1 Comments