Download or read book The Perfect Navy Wife written by Adeline "Jo" Puccini and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Perfect Navy Wife chronicles almost a half century of Navy life as experienced by a dedicated military family with much to give and even more to lose. After a remarkable career as a naval aviatorA[a¬aflying off fourteen different aircraft carriers in almost every type of aircraft used by the Navy, earning A[a¬Atop gunA[a¬A status in his squadronA[a¬aa husband is assigned to Washington, D.C., to deal with the political aspects of his career. A dAA(c)gagAA(c) ambience between military and political factions leads to tragedy and the Navy wife is expected to rebuild the two lives that are nearly destroyed. One succeeds and one fails. This story depicts the never-ending need to rise above what is tragic and unfair and to move forward. To quote the editor: A[a¬AThis is a fascinating story about two very accomplished peopleA[a¬aa noble venture.A[a¬A

Download or read book The Military Wife written by Laura Trentham and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young widow embraces a second chance at life when she reconnects with those who understand the sacrifices made by American soldiers and their families in award-winning author Laura Trentham’s The Military Wife. Harper Lee Wilcox has been marking time in her hometown of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina since her husband, Noah Wilcox’s death, nearly five years earlier. With her son Ben turning five and living at home with her mother, Harper fights a growing restlessness, worried that moving on means leaving the memory of her husband behind. Her best friend, Allison Teague, is dealing with struggles of her own. Her husband, a former SEAL that served with Noah, was injured while deployed and has come home physically healed but fighting PTSD. With three children underfoot and unable to help her husband, Allison is at her wit’s end. In an effort to reenergize her own life, Harper sees an opportunity to help not only Allison but a network of other military wives eager to support her idea of starting a string of coffee houses close to military bases around the country. In her pursuit of her dream, Harper crosses paths with Bennett Caldwell, Noah’s best friend and SEAL brother. A man who has a promise to keep, entangling their lives in ways neither of them can foresee. As her business grows so does an unexpected relationship with Bennett. Can Harper let go of her grief and build a future with Bennett even as the man they both loved haunts their pasts?

Download or read book Navy Wife written by Debbie Macomber and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book We Have This Hope written by Mackenzie Boothe and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's not sugar coat it. Deployment sucks. There are days you have it together, and days you think you won't make it through. Written by a military wife who has been there, We Have This Hope is a mixture of humor and biblical application that will encourage you in this tough time. This devotional has a real-talk approach which will challenge you, but also help you realize that you are equipped to make this journey with God at the helm.

Download or read book Wifeline written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magazine for Navy families.

Download or read book The War at Home written by Rachel Starnes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the strains of a military marriage and meditation on what it means to be left behind—a brave account of the challenges facing the wife of a Naval fighter pilot. When she fell in love with her brother’s best friend, Rachel Starnes had no idea she was about to repeat a painful family pattern—marrying a man who leaves regularly and for long stretches to work a dangerous job far from home. Through constant relocations, separations, and the crippling doubts of early parenthood, Starnes effortlessly weaves together strands from her past with the relentless pace of Navy life in a time of war. Searingly honest and emotionally unflinching—and at times laugh out loud funny—Starnes eloquently evokes the challenges she faces in trying to find and claim a sense of home while struggling to chart a new path and avoid passing on the same legacy to her two young sons. At once a portrait of the devastating strains that military life puts on families and a meditation on what it means to be left behind, The War at Home is a brave portrait of a modern military family and the realities of separation, endurance, and love that overcomes. “Rachel Starnes’s The War at Home navigates the joys, fears, compromises, and casualties that create the terrain of marriage. And if you are a military spouse, her memoir will reveal thoughts you never even knew you had. This is a wise and fearless book.” —Siobhan Fallon, author of You Know When the Men Are Gone “One of the most honest and genuine memoirs I’ve ever read, as well as one of the most finely written. There’s not a false note in these pages. Rachel Starnes’s story is at once both singular and emblematic. . . . The War at Home is that rare thing: a book about the here and now that promises to last well beyond next month or next year.” —Steve Yarbrough, award-winning author of The Realm of Last Chances and Safe from the Neighbors

Download or read book It Had to Be You written by R. J. Howare and published by ELDERBERRY PRESS, INC.. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir of a navy wife, Howard captures the powerful spirit of an age, a people and an America now lost. With this work, the author of "Power Steering" has recorded her life as an adventure.

Download or read book Going Overboard written by Sarah Smiley and published by New Amer Library. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a whimsical memoir, a one-time Navy brat and current Navy wife describes the trials and tribulations of being part of the military family, describing what it is like dealing with her husband's unexpected deployment, coping with raccoons in the attic, getting locked out of the house in her pajamas, developing a crush on a handsome doctor, and more.

Download or read book Navy Spouse s Guide written by Laura Hall Stavridis and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naval officers and enlisted personnel undergo extensive training to cope with the special demands of their duties at sea and ashore, but what about their spouses and children? This practical, one-of-a-kind guide fills the gap by helping families navigate the unique challenges of Navy life. Personal, friendly, and easy to use, this updated edition of the original 1997 guide is based on interviews with Navy spouses and a lifetime of lessons learned by the author as a Navy junior and wife of a career naval officer. Using an array of hard-to-find diagrams, charts, facts, and figures from a wide variety of sources, Laura Stavridis explains every aspect of Navy life in a frank, open discussion. The particulars of pay, living expenses, travel, children, emergencies, support groups, and social life, as well as medical, legal, and educational issues are described in an interesting, spouse-to-spouse format. Readers learn what to expect with regard to separation, homecomings, life overseas, shore duty, marital dynamics, and divorce. Also covered are such vital topics as military careers, spousal careers, reenlistment, retirement, and transition to civilian life. Useful phone numbers, checklists, glossary, and an up-to-date primer on the Navy's organization, ships and aircraft, and chain of command complete this unique reference. New to this second edition are discussions of e-mail communication, Internet resources, and spouse leadership roles within the Navy. For anyone starting out or contemplating life with a mate in the sea services this one-volume source of user-friendly information will prove invaluable.

Download or read book Today s Military Wife written by Lydia Sloan Cline and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated, this is the essential guide for servicemembers' wives and families. Covers all aspects, from marriage and living on base to moving and deployments Includes sections on benefits, resources, and sound advice for a quality life in the service Tips on how to survive and prosper, including coping with periodic separations, managing a separate career, pursuing further education, handling finances, living overseas, raising a family, and enjoying the social aspects of military life

Download or read book The Navy Wife written by Curtis McMinn and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-10-12 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NAVY WIFE: REFLECTIONS JOURNAL is the perfect journal for wives of sailors in the Navy. Contains enough pages for one year of tracking weekly reflections and journal entries Focuses on four weekly reflection points: positive happenings, hurtful events, sources of pride, and goals. Full page of lined space for each week Weekly focuse reduces the pressure to journal every day CONVENIENT SIZE: The 6x9 inch journal size makes packing the Journal in your purse or backpack simple and easy. Bring it with you wherever you go or keep it on your nightstand beside your bed. GIFT IDEA: Makes a great gift for your wife or friend who enjoys journaling.

Download or read book The Navy Wife written by Anne Etheldra Briscoe Pye and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book I m a Navy Wife Nothing Scares Me written by Erin Goodchild and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "I'm a Navy Wife Nothing Scares Me" Journal, with lined pages, is the perfect inspirational, motivational gift idea for women married to those served in the military. This blank line journal can be used as a prayer journal, gratitude journal, daily journal, budget journal, food diary, or diary. Great for writing down favorite or new recipes to try. Perfect for keeping track of to-do lists, grocery lists, goals, milestones, success, poetry, creative ideas, and self-care action plan. Reflect on life and relieve stress. This writing journal is the perfect gift idea for birthdays, holidays, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, or Valentine's Day. 6 x 9 paperback 110 pages (55 sheets) Beautiful glossy cover Perfect for gift-giving!

Download or read book She Also Served written by Christine Witzel and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was daily life like for a Navy officer's wife in California during World War II? In China amid civil war? In London and Europe during the Cold War? She Also Served: Letters from a Navy Wife offers an up-close and personal account of one woman's life during extraordinary times. With an eye for detail and an irrepressible sense of humor, Virgilia Short Witzel (1910-2004) tells the lesser-known stories of the Greatest Generation, those of a woman who served behind the scenes. Through skillful reporting, she reveals the dedication (and stamina) required to protect her family, support her husband's career, and represent the best of America, at home and overseas. Her younger daughter, Christine Witzel, sifted through hundreds of private letters, compiling the most entertaining and historically interesting selections. The result is an eminently readable collection. In the process, Christine, born in 1950, discovers a side of her mother that she had never known as well as a window into history as it unfolded. With her husband stationed in the Pacific, Virgilia moves into the “Snuggery,” a guest cottage behind her parents' home in Menlo Park, California. She plants vegetables in a victory garden, rolls bandages for the Red Cross, and tries to achieve a sense of normalcy for herself and daughter Joanna amid rationing, shortages, and loneliness: “Going to weddings without a man of your own is a very bad business,” she writes. “Whoever wrote that book about living alone and liking it was either a fool or a liar. I can see why some women rent escorts! Come on home before I set a trap for the milkman!” (July 4, 1943) Organizing a wartime birthday party is no easy affair: Woolworth's replaces candy counters with book displays, her favorite bakery won't take orders, and nowhere can she find white cotton socks for Joanna. “Can you imagine such a thing?” she writes. (July 20, 1943) An English major at University of California at Berkeley, Virgilia almost lands a newspaper job. “Mr. Willis (at the Menlo Park Gazette) was willing to give me a week's trial writing the society news, but his wife said no, so that was that.” (Sept. 8, 1943) After wartime privation, Virgilia joins her husband in Shanghai in November 1946, where she relishes opulent accommodations, servants, and panoramic views offering “ box seats for a continual newsreel.” The “singing stevedores” captivate her. The tune is “halfway between a chant and a yodel, and in rhythm with their steps, gradually slowing down to one note as the load reaches the bottom of the truck.” Based in London from 1953 to 1955 (the era portrayed in the “Call the Midwife” and “Bletchley Circle” TV series), Virgilia and her family explore postwar Europe. She brings her sharp eyes to a Buckingham Palace garden party, where she encounters Sir Winston Churchill and Billy Graham. She applauds the elegance of upper-class British women but is less than taken with the Royal Family. “The Queen is much smaller than she appears in photographs and also looked older and more tired than we had expected.” … Princess Margaret (“looking rather bored and sullen” en route) “is very small and the Queen M is just as short but very fat and quite un-aristocratic looking. The Duke is really a dish—very tall, very slender and full of personality.” Describing Billy Graham, she writes: “His skin is as smooth and fine-textured as a child's and some friends wondered if he had on pancake makeup. He's like a matinée idol—very tall, blond and glamorous. His wife looked pretty much like the usual parson's wife.” (July 24, 1955) Virgilia was a brilliant social reporter, and Mr. Willis erred grievously by failing to hire her. Recognizing her mother's talent, Christine Witzel opens her letters to new audiences.

Download or read book Good Military Wives Stay written by Monica Henry and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and men are socialized to accept and perform certain gendered roles generally man as warrior/protector and woman as caretaker/protected. The United States Military depends on the wives of servicemen to embrace these gendered roles in order to carry out military operations such as Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF.) The conservative nature of the military, its demand for obedience and loyalty, the dependency of military wives on the military community for financial and social support to cope with the hardships of military life contribute to the reluctance of those opposed to OIF to publicly express this opposition and/or contribute to their negative perceptions of the antiwar movement. Although large-scale opposition to OIF among military wives is unlikely, to avoid further alienating military wives and potential allies, members of the anti-war movement should consider the impact that specific methods of protest have on military families and engage in anti-war activities accordingly.

Download or read book Married to the Military written by Meredith Leyva and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now revised to reflect the reality of military and economic unrest around the world, Married to the Military remains an invaluable resource for any military spouse or significant other. When you marry a military service member, whether a reservist or active—you may feel as if you’ve also married the United States military! While there are plenty of orientation books on military training, there is not much information available about handling the personal aspects of military life. Married to the Military demystifies the often confusing military world so you can make the right choices for yourself and your family. Meredith Leyva, an experienced military wife and founder of CinCHouse.com, the Internet’s largest community for military wives, girlfriends, and women in uniform, offers time-tested advice on everything you need to know—from relocation to deployment, protocol to finances, and career to kids, including: -Keeping your love life together during deployments -Relocating yourself and your family around the world -Maintaining your own career when you're expected to move every three years -Understanding what pay and benefits you're entitled to—and how to maximize them -Dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other threats to your partner’s well-being Whether you’re figuring out military protocol or trying to understand the medical system, this savvy, friendly yet authoritative guide details just what you need to know to manage day-to-day issues and get on with the adventure of military life.

Download or read book The Life Of A Navy Wife written by Jasa Bowser-Shaw and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jasa Shaw was a young married Navy wife at the tender age of 18, learning about the Navy via day-to-day experiences. Some of the experiences were positive, some werenat. But these experiences helped her to realize that Navy wives are a special breed. The old saying about Navy wives, aIt is the toughest job in the Navy, a seemed so clichA(c) before, but it now rings so true. Navy wives do have a tough job and give up so much for their husbandsa careers. This book tells some of the good, the bad, and the ugly, though not necessarily in that order. It also contains some good information and ideas for living the Navy lifestyle. Read and laugh along with Jasa as she tells her experiences, which are relatable to every military wifeas life, and know that you arenat alone!