Recently we had another death in our community. For me each time this happens, it does bother me ... this is a person that was touched our lives. But here are always "buts" ... How it effects you are different. It won't stop my life from moving, it won't make me lock up my children, nor will it lock me up in my house ... it won't make me move from where I live, either.

Instead, I find myself more shocked by the behavior of those around me. I knew about the death before the "shocking" letter that came in our mail box today from the post commander. The woman died, but I today watched a neighbor run from her house to 2 other neighbors with the letter to gossip over it! I have waited for our chain of command to put out info on this all week, & they have not. You can drive down the interstate & see the blasted crime scene ... how horrid is that for everyone?

Instead many have their heads in a hole, like nothing happened until they got that letter. It's been on the news, you cannot miss it ... but WTF it didn't happen because you didn't see it, I guess. My heart breaks for that family ... they have lost so much.

I opened that letter today ... It went out to every family on our base. 1/2 of me want to walk way from it all & let our unit deal on their own. But the better half took over, I called my husband read the top part of the letter ... then asked if I should bring it in so they can discuss it with the soldiers. Which means THEY can control the situation from some point. I honestly believe they should have told those soldiers before today, yet they failed. Instead now they have to clean up a mess ... seeing that we have spouses who are not even 19 getting this letter!

After I watched a 30 yr old wig over it, how do you think a 19/20 yr old might act over it? They gave out numbers for the MPs, as well as councling & social workers. My guess is they had better up the strength of those individuals over the next few days because they are gonna get a lot of calls. Instead of telling them this before they send the letter, they get the letter 1st!

I am off topic ... my point was a death happens in your community. For the most part, most walk around as if it is nothing. Won't that bother you just a little? If you live in a small or medium sized area, it should make you hold your child a bit tigher ... hug your husband more ... love your life a bit more. Yet, for the more most part most of these people didn't even know this happened. Sad part is, I don't watch the news as much as they do & I knew it happened ... so WTF is up with them? Do they not care about one of their own?

Or maybe it just touches me differently than it does them ...

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