From My side of the Family~

My niece - She meets and marries a young soldier- has two beautiful little girls- She moves to an Army base with her husband - he gets deployed to Iraq- Spends a year there, and IED explodes near their vehicle, his commanders legs get blown off and his legs are full of shrapnel - He comes home for surgery to recover - is home for 22 months and then goes back to Iraq -

Present time-

My niece Joan flies home to California from Texas with her kids to be with her mother and father. She will stay there until her husband returns from his current tour. She finds a job, the kids are in daycare and thriving, she is happy... Her husband calls her and tells her he will be home in the next two week and that she needs to come back from Cali to set up her housing to prepare for his return.

She returns with kids in tow.. She sets up housing, buys furniture - prepares for her husband to return - He then calls her and says (get this) I WANT A DIVORCE... She was floored... She doesn't understand and asks him why, what happened.. He tells her he has been corresponding with an ex-girlfriend on Facebook and wants to be with her... He tells her the divorce papers are in the mail, just to sign them and go about your business..

So after being incredibly devastated, she gathers herself, the kids and moves back to Cali.. So far no papers have arrived, no Christmas gifts for the kids and no communication from the soldier husband...

Poor Joan... I think of her daily since the news of this story came to my attention... Idiot Soldier husband....