Oh good heavens, I am so glad I checked in here today. I had to stop coming here because, after 3 years of Any-Soldiering I now have so many friends who have come home and gone back again that at any given time I have one or two groups already to support from start to finish on a deployment somewhere, and it really twists my heart to see what more needs to be done. So I had to stay out of here for a while.
But I am real glad I came back. See I have been a "platoon mother" to that outpost (are we not allowed to name it?) since June, and in my shock and grief at their losses I could not imagine even where to begin, supporting them now. I can't tell you what a relief it is to know you all have got the basics covered, and I can stop wringing my hands over these piles of Happy Halloween things and just send them!
A real dope-slap moment for me, right? But I am so grateful. :-) Y'all are absolutely the best.