Persuasive Essay About Military Life

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Being a military child and wife for 19 years has made me so much more patriotic, than a lot of other I know. It has made me more aware of the freedoms we have, why we have them, and the sacrifices that have been made by others so we could keep them. A world that people seem to forget about if they do not watch the news and one that they do not know much about. Not only do come civilian people not consider what current military families go through on a daily basis, but also we forget about those military families in the past during other wars that helped give our country the freedoms we have today. I have come to find out that Military couples are no different from anyone else. We have weddings, honeymoons, children, expectations, goals and …show more content…

I always feared when my husband was deployed, this men in uniform possibly walking into my work or to my home, carrying that little folder under their arm. No one wants to think about losing their husband or wife or anyone close for that matter. Unfortunately, when it comes to being married to the military it seems as if the unknown is placed in our eyesight more frequently. It's a hard sight for any person to see a service member killed in action or from complications of war, but it’s even harder when you know your spouse is in a combat zone or is suffering from the after effects of combat. It can be downright stressful, both for spouses and for children. After a certain point, I could no longer watch the news. My friends and family would ask if I had seen what is going on now with Afghanistan, and I kindly had to rely many times, that I cannot watch the news anymore, that if I needed to know anything important I would find out through other means. Would I change ever being a military spouse to be a civilian spouse, no I really don’t think so. I’ve lived on both United States coasts, I find that I am much more accepting of others than some of my civilian friends and although I never really got the chance for a career to take root for myself, I am grateful for that chance now. My husband is retired from the Navy now, and has a regular job, he still works with in the military realm as a civilian contract instructor. I will never be considered a civilian’s wife, now I am known as US Navy Veterans’

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