“Military life…to me is often a lot like enduring paper cuts. A paper cut is a minor thing. Slightly painful. Definitely annoying at times but tends to heal quickly. Usually there isn’t a lot of blood. Sometimes there is cussing. And sometimes a band-aid is needed but more often, it heals up just fine if you just leave it alone. They tend not to happen often but when they do they make a big, yet momentary, impact.”
And while she was writing from her perspective those tiny cuts affect us former Military families as well as Civilians who have friends that are on Active Duty.
One of those tiny cuts, if you wish to call it that has been inflicted upon our family as CW; our great friend, heroine, single mom, Nurse and Air Force Officer packs her bags and leaves us this Saturday. She is not off to war, but rather moving across country to a new duty assignment. An assignment we all knew was coming as her graduation from Nurse Practitioner School, two weeks ago, suddenly loomed on the horizon.
No longer will we meet at Scouts and watch our boys play and grow up together, her children will not run in the yard with our children and her funny if not frantic calls for directions, or assistance fixing something, or to find an open body shop to fix the car she inadvertently backed into on a Saturday afternoon, will soon come to an end. School functions will seem different without her around to scamper in late and plop down in a saved seat next to our family; after working a full day at the hospital but still finding time to make it to school for her children.
Saturday is going to be a struggle saying good bye if even temporarily to such a great and wonderful person. I do hope that all goes well for her in her travels and that God willing we all meet again.
Good Luck and Godspeed Captain W!
You will always be in our thoughts and prayers.
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