If your not in Love with a Soldier

If your not in Love with a Soldier


If youre not in love with a soldier, you cant know adventure. You dont know smelly gray PT uniforms that require a daily washing. You cant understand green and brown camouflaged bags flooding your bedroom floor. They may seem like they are just thrown around, but move one thing the night before an important layout and expect to hear about it.

If youre not in love with a soldier, you cant understand the meaning of the phrase "going to the field" and the weeks you spend away from each other.

If youre not in love with a soldier, you cant understand what its like to have company every weekend who you will soon refer to as your "children" and they will need to be fed, so figure them into your grocery bill. You will need to teach them that you cant fit 3 hampers of clothes into the washing machine at the same time, and that whites and darks are not washed together.

If youre not in love with a soldier, you can never imagine the hole in your heart when that phone call comes. "Honey, I am leaving tomorrow to go overseas. I dont know how long I will be gone or exactly where I am going, but I want you to know that I love you - always!" You dont know the anxiety that comes with not knowing any specifics until it is already happening.

If youre not in love with a soldier, you dont know what its like to say that final good-bye, to watch those buses drive away and wonder if you will ever see him again. You dont know what it really means to be glued to the television watching CNN. You dont understand fear and you cant possibly understand the sleepless nights of endless crying wondering if you will ever see the love of your life alive again.

If youre not in love with a soldier, you cant understand why a computer must always be on full volume just in case. And why it is necessary to have one of every messenger... because you will never know when MSN messenger might work and Yahoo wont, or vice versa.

If youre not in love with a soldier, you dont know the best brand of webcam and all of the features by heart and recommend them to everyone you know. You can fully utilize all of the emoticons on every messenger and even know the hidden ones on yahoo.

If youre not in love with a soldier, you also wont understand the importance of always having access to a cell phone charger. Or having that special ringer for "unknown" and 13 digit phone numbers.

If youre not in love with a soldier, you would never understand the bond that instantly forms with any woman you see wearing anything battalion-related.

If youre not in love with a soldier, on the nights where we all come together and talk for hours about nothing but our men, and how even those little things that annoyed the crap out of us a few months ago are the things we miss so much. And then compare ideas on how to keep them... "entertained."

If youre not in love with a soldier, you cant know the immense joy, the uncontrollable smile, or the butterflies in your stomach when you see your soldier march into the family waiting area upon redeployment or the end of basic training. You cant understand the self-control it takes to stand on the other side of the room as some higher-up gives a seemingly endless welcome home speech while all the soldiers stand in formation. You dont know what its like to have that second first kiss or what its like to experience puppy love all over again. You spend hours and hours getting ready so everything is in perfect place, just to have your hair ruffled and everything touseled up with that first embrace.

If youre not in love with a soldier, you cant truly understand how to make every moment count because you never know when that phone call may come again. You dont understand why a secret bottle of cologne is kept in the medicine cabinet, or his deoderant left on the bathroom sink all year, just to smell when you want to feel closer to him.

If youre not in love with a soldier, you can never really understand how very delicate life is! You dont understand how fast one phone call, or a knock at the door can instantly change life for so many people. You dont understand why the National Anthem will forever be something that we will STAND for and probably well up in tears, no matter where life takes you after the military.

Airborne

People wonder why I would love to marry a mIlitary man again.. After my ex got out and we divorced I know have a military son( so PROUD OF HIM) HOOOAH!!!

Well I think you said it all>>>> Its a adventure, it's in the blood and No matter what you guys and girls will always have my SUPPORT.

I loved a soldier once.

Air Assault!!!

awww that was beautiful Christy! God bless!

Hi - I would just like to lay claims to this poem! :) I am an elementary school teacher and was at a writing workshop in May 03, and our assignment, as part of this workshop, was to write a poem in this form. I wrote this poem for my husband; he had left in Feb 03 for Iraq, just ten days after we were married. Before I emailed the poem to my husband, I emailed it to several friends asking their opinions...from there, it has been forwarded around the globe. I don't mind that it is used (though this one has been altered slightly), but I would like for people to know that I, Christy Krasinski, wrote it for my husband, Michael, who faithfully served in the US Army!