Just Checking In

Well haven't blogged in a bit so I thought I would stop in and just say hello! Been reading everyones blogs and they are all so good, I love reading and learning about all of you. If you stop by please leave a link to your blog so I can hop on over in case I missed it. As we drive cross country I will be reading a lot of them and I don't want to miss any great ones!
So this week has been eventful and uneventful all at the same time, strange I know. Have a few sick family members, one is OK now, one is going to be fighting for his life. Cancer is a mean and ugly thing, I really hope they can find a cure in my lifetime.
Well some good news, my son did come home with his yearbook this past week, and here he is as an "outstanding senior" and we couldn't be more proud.



My husband is now on his second week of leave, and we are enjoying it. I love that we have so much fun together and how we just laugh and enjoy one anothers company, even after all these years. It is nice to know that when our son is off to college we still have one another. Oh ya and the dog is loving having "dad" home..he is so much more fun than me.



Saturday my son has his last JROTC Ball, and than the following week he has his change of command. Last year my husband was in Afghanistan when my son was promoted to Cmdr so he missed it all but I am happy he will be here to see him turn the unit over. They do a really nice ceremony and you almost forget these are High School kids. I will be sharing the pics so stay tuned.

Where is the Media Now???

I just got word that another Marine from my husbands Battalion was killed in Afghanistan. Our Battalion (yes, I say ours) went in with the intial push last year in April and took a lot of hits immediatly out of the gate. And I get that troops die in wars, I really get that. My own father was a Marine and killed in a war. But this week I have been angry, really angry. It started with the "News heard round the world" ..yes, Tiger Woods great apology for being a creepy cheater and it aired on every channel that I get on my television and I get a lot of channels. During his "great apology" I decided to tweet the names of the fallen, in February alone. There were plenty of names to take up the 15-20 minutes that Tiger blabbered on.
What has me so angry is this, Where is the Media? It is like they have forgotten we were at war (yes, again I say we). Since President Obama has sent troops in to Afghanistan the coverage has been next to zero. If you want to find news on the War you have to hit the net, or Twitter or some other resourse but certainly not the MSM. During the last administration if a troop or civilain so much has stubbed their toe it was on breaking news or ticker across the bottom of the page.
So why the silence now? How about the Media start talking about what is important and not turn its back on our service members? Here are the numbers folks for February alone...25 US Troops KIA in Afghanistan this month alone..not to mention almost an equal amoung of Allied forces KIA.
How about the troops killed by their Afghany translator last month? Yes, you heard it right. It didn't even make the MSM.
I am so tired of hearing about all the troop support and family support. The first lady talks about money going to help the families and then what happens, MyCaa gets canked without warning..to resume and some "unknown" date.
I don't care what people say about this administration, or the last. I do know this for sure...I feel like our troops are being left on the side of the road and so are we the families...