OK...here's the update...We're half-way through the deployment now...and I am MORE than ready for it to just be OVER, and have my husband back! He just bought a international cell phone from another soldier, so I got my FIRST phone call from him since April! I miss him SO much, and some days it's hard to function normally...or even want to get out of bed!

He was supposed to be coming home soon for his 2 week leave...but we just got told that his R&R had been pushed BACK a month. :( SO...it'll be another TWO months that I have to wait to see him again.

Can somebody make it January, so he can come home???

Breaking News from a desert town Smoke and rubble on the ground The names we do not know right now And it cuts me like a knife

With a tearful goodbye kiss I sent him off to this But I've gotta stay strong... I'm a soldier's wife

I run the house I sleep alone I live for e-mails And the phone calls home... I'm a soldier's wife

We do the things we used to do Go to church, go to school But you could drive a truck right through The hole that's in our lives

Sometimes I'm angry Sometimes confused I live and die by The evening news

I pray for strength I pray for peace I pray that he comes home to me And if you would please pray for me I'm a soldier's wife.

Ok...it's offical...my husband is now overseas. I have SO many mixed feelings right now! I'm proud, but scared...happy he is doing his duty and what he loves, but sad we're apart.

Please pray for him and his Unit, that they will be safe, can complete their mission the way it is supposed to be, and come back home healthy and whole!

April

Dear savior, hear my humble plea, Keep my Soldier safe for me. You know he's so far away from home And it's his mission to explore and roam In a hostile, foreign land to defend us; Bless his efforts to be brave, true and just.

Lord, hold him and keep him from harm To once again be secure in my arms. I love my Soldier, my Husband, my life, so much And long to have him here to kiss and touch.

Give time wings, Lord, and let it fly Soaring sure and swiftly by Until the day he returns to me-- Always loving and true - a Hero - mine to be. Once more, Savior - my humble plea -- Keep my Soldier safe for me.

April H. Martin, copywright 2007

I worte this right before he left to go to his training.

Please let me know your thoughts.

I found this, and boy does it fit!

She wakes up in the middle of the night Wishing he were there to squeeze her tight. But he's been gone for what seems like years And no one understands all her fears. She waits by the phone every day She looks up high and starts to pray Another day and still no call She closes her eyes and tears start to fall He's over in another land Without her there to hold his hand And she counts the day until he comes home When she will no longer have to be alone. She's loved this man for so many years And watched him go and then shed tears But this is the life you chose to lead When you fall in love with a United States Hero.