by Molly Huggins | Mar 13, 2013 | Army Life, Faith, Fear, Grief
I have a heavy heart today. It’s days like these … A Blackhawk crash in Afghanistan on Monday night … that make me fearful of the days to come. That make it near impossible to bid my anxious fears goodbye. Some names have been released, some are...
by Molly Huggins | Dec 11, 2012 | Bug, Faith, Fear, Grief, Hope, Original J
I have been turning this over every possible way in my foggy pregnant brain, deciding how, or if to write about it. Because I am happy, I promise, in the kind of way that you want to freeze and remember when the days are coming hard and fast. When Jaime died, and we...
by Molly Huggins | Sep 9, 2012 | Army Life, Grief, Snapshots
For privacy reasons, my friend has chosen to remain anonymous. But please read her snapshot of “I”. Sometimes, we meet people right in the heart of their messy and heartisbreaking moments. And we don’t and sometimes won’t know how the story...
by Molly Huggins | Aug 28, 2012 | Army Life, Grief, Original J, Our Story
. . . I tried to email Husband, willed him to call so I could be the one to break the news. Since telepathy is not my strong suit, he did not receive the message, and read about her death on the front page of the Army Times that someone else was reading in the chow...
by Molly Huggins | Aug 27, 2012 | Army Life, Fear, Grief, Original J, Our Story
*These are events occurring in January of 2006.* . . . In a split second, the fear ate me alive. It started with a news story and well meaning phone calls. News of a helicopter crash travels fast in our community and I had seen it on the news. A few key details . . ....
by Molly Huggins | Aug 24, 2012 | Army Life, Grief, Husband, Our Story
. . . The details from this point forward are unimportant. I received the drugs, if only to shut me up. I was in a Dilaudid-induced haze for much of the day. I have vague memories of Army Wife moving in and out of view, on the phone with Husband, keeping him apprised...
