by Molly Huggins | Sep 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
December 12, 2011, two Kiowas crashed into each other in Washington state. As the aviation community so often goes, the Buoniconti family were friends of friends. I was an avid follower of their story. I grieved for their family in tandem with the loss of Bug....
by Molly Huggins | Sep 6, 2012 | Army Life, Lives We Love, Snapshots
Meet my friend T. You’ve heard of the stages of grief, right? Well, you could say there are stages of deployment. One of them is insane preparation for every wild scenario your overactive imagination can conjure. And can I just tell you, we’ve all been...
by Molly Huggins | Sep 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
… I am not strong. I am not strong. I NEED my husband. He cannot be gone. Please. Please. PLEASE! I don’t care whose husband it is, just please don’t let it be mine. … What if it is him? What will I do? Do I know where his Dress Blues are? Wait. ...
by Molly Huggins | Aug 31, 2012 | Army Life, Fear, Lives We Love, Original J, Snapshots
Please, meet Wendy. She is a dear friend with a Little J like mine. This her snapshot of strong. November 4, 2005. Lunchtime. After a bout of nausea I questioned: could I be pregnant? After three years of unsuccessful attempts we had decided to stop trying to get...
by Molly Huggins | Aug 31, 2012 | Army Life, Lives We Love, Snapshots
I would like to take a moment here, before I publish anymore snapshots, to share with you what dawned on me Wednesday night. There are a lot of things I don’t know about this process. … I don’t know how to tell you what it feels like to be a voice for these...