He takes her from the home she knows to lands of which are new.
Survival is an unknown place, becomes her test of truth.
Her burdens of many and his thanks sometimes are small.
She keeps her faith through thick and thin and makes the best of all.
She lives with some uncertainty, knows not what dawn may bring, but he knows nothing stops his girl from doing anything.
Whether star, stripe, or bar adorns his collar or his strife, nothing means more to a soldier than the one he calls his wife.
-Author Unknown
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