As a follow up to the "Crap and Craic" piece I wrote earlier this week, I'd like to add a few more thoughts I have about issues women vets face while deployed and when they return. I'd already been mulling it over and then yesterday I had a three hour long interview with Greta Privitera [...]
Yesterday I spoke with Helen Coster from Forbes Magazine who is writing a feature article for Marie Claire about women veterans and the issues they face when returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. I was one of several female vets she interviewed, and the piece is scheduled to be published in March. The content of our [...]
If I was still in full blogger mode this month, I would have stayed on top of things and posted this a couple weeks ago as a pre-Christmas-war-series-continuation type entry. But I didn't. Forgive me. I'm posting it now, though, because it's one of those "groupers" of mine that plainly captures snapshots of the everyday [...]
I wanted to write about this a week and a half ago, but as life goes, I got caught up in other things and didn't sit down to write when I should have. Instead I cranked this out in less than 20 minutes before getting on the road to Chicago today ... Last week, I [...]
Dear Supporters, I am writing today to tell you about a promising young Marine and the event that changed her forever. This is her story in her own words. I know why other women don’t want to tell….because you cannot imagine (before it happens) that it COULD ever happen to a self-sufficient woman like you….a [...]
This is one of my stories that most of you don't know yet...and one which details only the beginning of a battle I fought....a struggle that spanned nearly all the years of my Marine Corps career. Sadly 1.I'm by far not the only one to whom something like this has happened, and my heart goes out [...]
*forgive me, i ran out of time this week to edit as much as I would've preferred, but still wanted to go ahead and post it. I'm about to fly out to SoCal this afternoon, and going back there always reminds me at least a little bit of this time in my life because that's [...]
Foofs&Foofs summer '05 hangin in SanDiego before my first deploymentI needed something a little uplifting today, so I combed through my deployment journals knowing I'd find a golden nugget somewhere ;) I stumbled across these excerpts I noted in my 28 December 2006 entry after reading Donald Miller's wonderful work, Blue Like Jazz. Tori sent [...]
Well, HAPPY THANKSGIVING everyone! I hope you are all spending time with family and being very thankful for all you have. :) As for myself, I'm having a pretty standard day. I've been back from AQ for almost 2 weeks and I can't believe how busy I've been. Some of you I've emailed more with [...]
14 November 2005, 19:00 MondayAl Asad, Iraq à Here I sit in the Al Asad J-COT waiting for a flight out on a C-130 to TQ. My day started around 0600 when my alarm went off and I hit snooze a few times. Jen got home around 0700 and we chatted briefly before she went [...]
