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JFN1

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4. By family and friends...

Reply to SydBAThule (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 15, 2012, 06:39 AM

Apr 2012

who so often take for granted the fact you are a long way from home, lonely, homesick, and in need of the moral boost only a letter from home or a phone call can give. Sometimes it seems like they forget where you are and what you're doing - probably a form of emotional compensation for the fact you may be in danger...but even if so, it still sucks to feel forgotten by your loved ones.

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SUNDAY'S DOONESBURY: "So Where You Calling From?" [View all] Hissyspit Apr 2012 OP

It's sad, how our military folks are so often taken for granted... JFN1 Apr 2012 #1

Taken for granted by whom? SydBAThule Apr 2012 #2

By family and friends... JFN1 Apr 2012 #4

Veterinarian or veteran? Robb Apr 2012 #9

I was talking to a soldier in a bar outside of Fort Bragg. Hissyspit Apr 2012 #3

What do you mean? Doctor_J Apr 2012 #10

Time to bring them home. baldguy Apr 2012 #5

Absolutely. JFN1 Apr 2012 #6

Long, long past actually. Hissyspit Apr 2012 #7

Rachel's first book is about this 90-percent Apr 2012 #8

"It's also extremely unprecedented in American history, " dixiegrrrrl Apr 2012 #11

K&R! countryjake Apr 2012 #12