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Home Sweet Home

I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like for our servicemembers who are on deployment for months at a time... I spend a full week working and living up in Greenwood, Indiana and when I come home on Friday nights, I am so very happy to be home. My home is a very modest one-bedroom apartment replete with a fat grey cat named Iris. And yet, after a week away, I couldn't be happier to be home again.

I am fortunate to be able to board with my uncle in Greenwood through the week. He and his wife have a beautiful home (which is for sale, by the way) in an exclusive neighborhood. My room has a big-screen TV and a lovely sitting area and desk space. It's like staying in a 5-star hotel (without the room service) and yet somehow I can't wait to get back home each Friday night.

Life is like that, I suppose. Even if it's a cardboard box under the overpass somewhere, if it contains your stuff and you call it "home," you can't wait to get back to it. Simple pleasures. On this Independence Day weekend, I hope that all of our troops will be able to get that simple pleasure again for themselves very soon.

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Lone Ranger said…
I was away from home for half of the first six years of my marriage. The tragedy there is not what I missed, but what my kids missed. I was never able to fully imprint them at the earliest age with my personality and sense of right and wrong. It's something that can never be fixed.
7/02/2005 12:56:00 AM
Rena Bernard said…
Lone Ranger, trust me, it certainly can be fixed! My Dad was absent over many of my childhood years. I inherited (genetically?) many of his personality traits anyway. We were never close when I was a kid up until my recent adult years. Now? We are best buddies! Never say "never," my friend!
7/02/2005 01:04:00 AM
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