My husband is currently deployed in Afghanistan and has been deployed since December. We have a beautiful family and our youngest is just turned 10 months old. He left when he was alittle over 1 ½ months and won't be back until he is at least 15 months old. The soldiers sacrifice so much and so do the children and they do it proudly. I am proud to be an Army wife and to stand by him. But it is so hard when our youngest son does something new then to tell him and to watch him tear up because it's another thing that he has missed and even though I have the moments recorded and pictures of them he said that he still gets upset because he is not in them and you can't get the first back or rewind time so he can experience them with me and our family and his first year book he only has a few pictures with him and has he has to read it and not record the memories with me. To all of the vets and their families that have done this before me and had to do it with this without the technology that we have now THANK YOU. I truely do appreciate everything that you have done, given and sacraficed for us.

Melanie Johns
Fort Knox, KY