A Navy wife's story
A few days ago I posted a blog about TU photographer Jon Fletcher and I having come away from our five-day voyage on the USS John F. Kennedy with a deeper understanding of what service men and women go through during deployments. In the blog, I asked people to write in to share their experiences. Here's part of an e-mail I received from a local woman who's husband is in the Navy and currently serving at NAS Jacksonville:
Although I have only been a Navy wife for a little over 3 1/2 years now, I somewhat know what it’s like to have to go through deployments. I was 4 months pregnant with my daughter when my husband went on our first deployment together (I was left at home, he was on the USS JFK). It was horrible. I was going through the stage in my pregnancy when my hormones were all messed up and I cried for no reason at all. Just when I thought it couldn’t be worse, 3 Doors Down had that depressing song about military families and how they missed their naval wives/husbands. “I’m here without you baby.” That song sent me into tears every time I heard it. I feared for his life all the time. And he was only gone for three weeks!! It was what you call a trial run so they could make a go of the six-month deployment without any kinks. Thank God that by the time that six month deployment came around we had switched from sea duty to shore duty.
We'd love to hear more, so if you want to share your experience, please post it in a comment here on the blog or via e-mail at jeff.brumley@jacksonville.com.
Jeff
ps -- click HERE HERE HERE to see photos and video from the JFK's recent underway from Boston to Jacksonville.
pps -- here are the lyrics to the 3 Doors Down song she was referring to, called "Here Without You":
A hundred days had made me older
since the last time that I've saw your pretty face
A thousand lights had made me colder and I don’t think I can look at this the same
But all the miles had separate
They disappear now when I’m dreaming of your face
I’m here without you baby
but your still on my lonely mind
I think about you baby
and I dream about you all the time
I’m here without you baby
but your still with me in my dreams
And tonight it’s only you and me
The miles just keep rollin
as the people either way to say hello
I've heard this life is overrated
but I hope that it gets better as we go
I’m here without you baby
but your still on my lonely mind
I think about you baby
and I dream about you all the time
I’m here without you baby
but your still with me in my dreams
And tonight girl it’s only you and me
Everything I know,
and anywhere I go
it gets hard but it won’t take away my love
And when the last one falls,
when it’s all said and done
it get hard but it won’t take away my love
I’m here without you baby
but your still on my lonely mind
I think about you baby
and I dream about you all the time
I’m here without you baby
but your still with me in my dreams
And tonight girl it’s only you and me
Although I have only been a Navy wife for a little over 3 1/2 years now, I somewhat know what it’s like to have to go through deployments. I was 4 months pregnant with my daughter when my husband went on our first deployment together (I was left at home, he was on the USS JFK). It was horrible. I was going through the stage in my pregnancy when my hormones were all messed up and I cried for no reason at all. Just when I thought it couldn’t be worse, 3 Doors Down had that depressing song about military families and how they missed their naval wives/husbands. “I’m here without you baby.” That song sent me into tears every time I heard it. I feared for his life all the time. And he was only gone for three weeks!! It was what you call a trial run so they could make a go of the six-month deployment without any kinks. Thank God that by the time that six month deployment came around we had switched from sea duty to shore duty.
We'd love to hear more, so if you want to share your experience, please post it in a comment here on the blog or via e-mail at jeff.brumley@jacksonville.com.
Jeff
ps -- click HERE HERE HERE to see photos and video from the JFK's recent underway from Boston to Jacksonville.
pps -- here are the lyrics to the 3 Doors Down song she was referring to, called "Here Without You":
A hundred days had made me older
since the last time that I've saw your pretty face
A thousand lights had made me colder and I don’t think I can look at this the same
But all the miles had separate
They disappear now when I’m dreaming of your face
I’m here without you baby
but your still on my lonely mind
I think about you baby
and I dream about you all the time
I’m here without you baby
but your still with me in my dreams
And tonight it’s only you and me
The miles just keep rollin
as the people either way to say hello
I've heard this life is overrated
but I hope that it gets better as we go
I’m here without you baby
but your still on my lonely mind
I think about you baby
and I dream about you all the time
I’m here without you baby
but your still with me in my dreams
And tonight girl it’s only you and me
Everything I know,
and anywhere I go
it gets hard but it won’t take away my love
And when the last one falls,
when it’s all said and done
it get hard but it won’t take away my love
I’m here without you baby
but your still on my lonely mind
I think about you baby
and I dream about you all the time
I’m here without you baby
but your still with me in my dreams
And tonight girl it’s only you and me
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