Most of us don't feel the war everyday. many Americans don't feel it at all ecept in the pocket book. But we know here at PW have knowledge of the cost of this war in many of it to many aspects. So for the guest that pass through I post this.

As wars lengthen, toll on military families mounts By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer
49 minutes ago



FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - Far from the combat zones, the strains and separations of no-end-in-sight wars are taking an ever-growing toll on military families despite the armed services' earnest efforts to help.

Divorce lawyers see it in the breakup of youthful marriages as long, multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan fuel alienation and mistrust. Domestic violence experts see it in the scuffles that often precede a soldier's departure or sour a briefly joyous homecoming.

Teresa Moss, a counselor at Fort Campbell's Lincoln Elementary School, hears it in the voices of deployed soldiers' children as they meet in groups to share accounts of nightmares, bedwetting and heartache.

"They listen to each other. They hear that they aren't the only ones not able to sleep, having their teachers yell at them," Moss said.

Even for Army spouses with solid marriages, the repeated separations are an ordeal.
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Well, at least these families have ...
< duh-da-da-dahhhh >
... THE SURGE to keep them warm at night!

When Bush and Congress cut military benefits, extend their overseas stay, and mounting stresses cause them problems...

... all caused by a war where Bush manipulated the focus of the pre-war intelligence and lied about many aspects of how the war would play out...

Surely these divorces can be mended by a realization that THE SURGE is working???

Haven't they heard that?
Is the MSM keeping that news from them?

Somebody? PLEASE give me a Democrat to blame cause obviously "the war" can't be to blame...