Got some very good news

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Got some very good news
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Sun, 01-07-2007 - 8:56pm

My sil (my brother's wife) is Army Reserves. She was already in Iraq in 2004 and she gets out of the reserves in Oct. 2008. Her batallion is going to be deployed late this year. Besides the obvious (who wants a family member in Iraq really), she and my brother have a dd that was born in April of 2006. Their dd would stay with us if she was deployed because my brother works long hours and is VERY impatient, he can't handle being a dad with his wife around, let alone if she was gone.


My sil had drill this weekend and we babysat our niece. My sil just got back. Her batallion is being deployed in November, but so far she is not on the battle roster! It could change, but as it stands right now she will not be going to Iraq. I guess they took a survey that had 4 questions, such as "Do you wish to be deployed?", "If deployed do you want to stay with your batallion?", etc. and my sil of course said she didn't want to be deployed and I guess for some reason they listened.


I can't tell you how good of news this is for our family. My dh's cousin is in Iraq right now and if my sil went we'd just get dh's cousin back by the time she went. Anyone who has someone over there knows how nerve wracking it is every day. My sil lost her best friend in Iraq last time. Dh's cousin's group lost 6 people in 2 months.


Any thoughts and prayers would be much appreciated. My sil did sign up for the reserves and she and my brother made the decision to have a child before her tour was up, but of course we'd still rather keep her in the US.



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Registered: 03-17-2005
Sun, 01-07-2007 - 9:01pm
That is great news!

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Registered: 07-06-2006
Sun, 01-07-2007 - 9:13pm

I will say a prayer that she gets to stay here!

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Sun, 01-07-2007 - 9:13pm
That is wonderful news!!!
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Mon, 01-08-2007 - 12:30am
Sending "stayputSIL" vibes right now, darlin!

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Registered: 05-11-2006
Mon, 01-08-2007 - 11:45am
I hope she gets to stay home!
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Mon, 01-08-2007 - 11:50am
This is just my oppinion, but it seems brutal that a society would take a woman away from her child to send her off to war. What kind of world are we living in. I thought women weren't in combat positions or has this changed, i didn't know this. I wish wars were fought by sons of the rich politicians, i really do. Just my oppinion, and the business men, but they are not are they! In ancient times, wars were fought only with the noble men, of athenian society, not the slaves, nor poor. Isn't that interesting!
anyway, i pray that no mother is ever taken from her child especially for such non-sense as wars to stabilize a culture that will not stabilize in this way. Sorry just my oppinion.
I feel a culture and a society has to earn their own independence like the French did and the american't from the British. Not, the americans going in to free the Iraqis what hog wash hs been given to people, what is even scarier is the lack of knowledge of the soldiers going over there as to what really is going on in these cultures, because they are so diff. than the american culture.
anyway, i really feel for the people deployed to Iraq because they don't know what they are really getting into and sacrificing their lives and families really for.
sorry to get all preachy,
arie
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Registered: 05-04-2005
Mon, 01-08-2007 - 1:06pm

Arie,


I completely agree with you. I don't think women have any place on the front lines (my opinion). In the US, women started being put on the front lines during the first Iraq war. Now, its common place.


I do think, though, that my brother and sil have some to do with this. She signed up for the reserves, she is in for 8 years (finishes in 2008), yet she and my brother ttc. So, while I don't agree with sending moms away from the kids to the war, I think my brother and sil made a poor choice. They knew when they ttc that there was a good chance my sil would be deployed again.




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Mon, 01-08-2007 - 3:52pm
Like i said in ancient athens only the noble class was in the wars and it was considered an honor to fight for one's country however, they didn't have women there at all and well, it is the policies that dictate peoples lives, not so much the people themselves but the law makers and the ruling class. The romans, had similar armies like we have today, mercinary style, anyway. I didn't know that about women in the front lines, how absolutely barbaric, and what a decay in our civilization.
take care of her little one well.
arie
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Registered: 03-14-2005
Tue, 01-09-2007 - 11:52am
That's great Heather... I couldn't imagine being away from my babies and leaving Kyle to take care of them. Keep us updated if anything changes!

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Registered: 10-31-2006
Tue, 01-09-2007 - 11:57am

Awesome news Heather!

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