Military Wife Monday

(moving this thing to Monday because it rhymes better)

Today feel free to:

Talk about friends.

The one thing that brings us together is inevitably the thing that will pull us apart.

It started many years ago, when I left home in Tucson to move away with my Marine. We moved to Mass. I left all my childhood friends, the ones I had grown up with, known for years and years. The ones I had become an adult with. So many of my friends had been there with me through some terrible times, and through some great ones. Amazing memories from being young were left behind in Tucson.

We arrived in Chicopee, MA. It took a few weeks for me to get a job but that's where I made my friends, Westover ARB Shopette. My boss, my coworkers, we all became close friends. I don't think I really had friends outside that circle. When we got married I made some neighbor friends, some of whom I worked with anyway, or knew through the base because it was a small on base community and everyone shopped on base.

Then we got orders to Okinawa. This was going to be tougher because I didn't have plans to work. I got lucky though, I was required to take a drivers safety course and I made my first friend in that class. The other friends I had there I made through the internet, and my neighborhood off base.

Now we are in Helena, and I am still working on gaining friends. But I have this community of friends that I have gained thorough the years, between the internet and real life. I have friends from coast to coast, sea to shining sea. I have friends in Japan, Italy, UK, Canada, across the us, from Florida to Maine, From South Carolina to San Diego, and almost everywhere in between.

I am very happy that I have all these connections, without the internet keeping in touch would be very hard, mostly because I suck at using the phone. But I know that if I ever need anyone I there are people all over the world that are there for me.

The military has brought us all together. If it weren't for the military I would not have them. I am thankful for the friends I have made, and hope that I can continue to keep in touch and grow my friendships with more people across the world.

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