I must say, the news this week that our men and women in the National Guard 875th Engineer Batallion might be mobilized again later this year caught me by surprise.  It has only been two years since the unit came home from Iraq.  It seems like it was just yesterday that we went through the emotion of sending them away and then welcoming them home.

Now, we may ask these same men and women to leave their families for a long period of time AGAIN to serve somewhere, maybe Iraq, maybe Afghanistan.

I know this is happening everyday to families all across our great country.  But there’s something about when it’s the people from here, people you know, faces you know, people who listen to you and know you.  That makes it hard.

And, if you ever wondered whether or not a child separated by military service from its parent has means anything?  Look at this…………

God bless the people making the decisions to send our men and women away.  And God bless the families of those affected.

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