Ms. MO’s Mad Mad World

Last night I watched “We Were Soldiers”. I had a headache and was quite tired and I didn’t get emotionally involved in it. Of course the scenes with the wives and families left behind got to me. I have spent the morning looking up the people who played a major part. Even Mrs. Julia Compton Moore. Military Spouses and Families have a lot to thank her for. Mrs. Julia C. Moore changed the way the Army did causality notifications to the families among other things. They did actually use taxi cab drivers for delivery of the telegrams. They would just hand over the telegram and leave the widow to grieve on her own. I couldn’t even imagine. Phone calls were few and far between with letters being the same. Being the wife of a deployed soldier is not easy however I am quite grateful for women like Mrs. Moore who set up so many programs for military families still in use today. The same ones many of us complain about. Myself included.

The book and the movie are not about her but luckily she does have a part, other wives are mentioned and the way housing and families really were during that time are given a small spotlight. I still haven’t read the book but I look forward to skimming it… The movie was worth watching. Interesting that Maverick was in 1/7 before this current deployment and got to meet Mr. Joseph Galloway.

Author, journalist visits Garryowen

Well that’s it for now. Send a prayer for each soldier and family that loves them as I will do for all of you.

It may look like I haven’t updated here in a few weeks but I have been adding to the Mommy Help Lunches. I have been making the girls bentos and they are a hit. Children at school are very interested in what the girls will be bringing and let me tell you, it’s no different than what their mothers are packing. It is just arranged differently making it more fun to eat. Even things I didn’t think they would actually want in their lunches like the dreaded left overs, they are eating. Yay!

I have been reading a few books off my normal Historical Time Traveling Romances. “The Boleyn Inheritance” has grown on me since I finished it a few weeks ago. It was boring to read and took me longer to get through because of it but looking back on it I can say I truly enjoyed it. I have also been reading the “Dexter” books, yes the ones that the series on Showtime is based on. If you are as addicted to the show as Maverick and I you will enjoy the books, they are about 85% different, good stuff. Right now I am currently reading: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs. Interesting concept, and for those like me, the not at all religious but not an atheist either types, this is a light hearted read, it is not persuasive it is just as it it says, one guy living by the bible and not any one religion and at times it’s pretty funny . His poor wife… LOL.

So I hope all is well in Military Blogger world. I haven’t visited anybody for a week and though I don’t comment I do visit you and enjoy your musings.