So how do you handle deployment? How are you so strong you do not shed a tear the day he leaves? I've had these questions asked of me several times. Yesterday my loving friend I've known for sometime now deployed to the great big sandbox. For those people who know me I am a very strong person and I talked to him before he left. I expressed my concerns and he expressed his and sometimes I feel like I am new to this but for real I am not. I am new to the USMC rules but deployment I am very much so use too. As a Navy brat and my dad after he left the Navy being gone for his job a lot I got use to the silence and such. But this time it is different. Every deployment is different. Every person is different and they handle it different. So as I said before he deployed to the sandbox and saddly I was not there but I was there in spirit. He is stationed in Hawaii(oh those Marines in Hawaii OOOrah!!) Anyways my concerns were expressed and as my marine got on a bus to go to the airport to get his free trip to the sandbox what was I doing? MMMM I was getting gunmetal dogtags engraved. Along with getting my hair done cause it needed to be trimmed. In this situation I would like people to know that I am a strong woman and also that it is hard to say good bye when you love someone so much. So to me it was just see you later. To me all I needed was I love you and I will keep in touch. I do not need all the tears. I am sure down the road I will be in tears cause maybe it hasn't hit me but I know for the moment I am fine. I wake up everyday smiling and I see his picture. And I trust in God that everything will be okay. He may be gone for now but he has my heart.
