To some wives (ahem… new wives), this is a laughable notion. I’ve seen the mocking posts on Facebook full of scorn, making fun of the wives who start planning for homecoming within the first few months of their husbands’ deployment. Well, I am one of those wives who prepares early. Within the first month of my husband leaving, I’d ordered the first of his homecoming banners. In the next month or two, I’d bought several homecoming outfits to have on hand. And slowly, over the course ...

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