Service Separations
[…]called you in for a conference. By the next day you discover the ailing child merely ate too much candy, the washing machine was accidentally unplugged, the checkbook had been added up incorrectly, and Junior’s teacher only wanted to let you know what a great job he was doing! But then the mail is delayed, and by the time your husband gets your second letter, two weeks later, he has developed three new ulcers and chewed off all his fingernails. Military wives often joke that everything waits to go wrong until the moment Dad leaves. I recall one time when […]