Making the Invisible Visible
My father was career Army. He retired when I was three. I grew up in Columbus, Georgia and Ft. Benning was a large part of my life. I had a lot of friends who were in the military, were former military or had a father who was retired Army and so forth. I got married at age 19 to another 19 year old with whom I had graduated high school. His father had been career Army and his only dream was to be a soldier. Like his father (and mine), he also made a career of the Army. So I was a military wife for a lot of years. And then we began a long, slow divorce that was drawn out because of my health issues and the fact that we have two special-needs kids. When I was getting divorced, my first boyfriend was a man who had retired from the Army. We met through a mutual friend and this friend was, like me, a military wife and homeschooling mom. The military has its own culture. I tend to get along better with people who have spent some time in the military or who have been military depend