A Letter on the People We Become

Perhaps that is part of what Military Spouse Appreciation Day truly means to me. Not simply gratitude for sacrifice, though sacrifice certainly exists here, nor praise for resilience as though we are somehow endlessly unbreakable, but recognition.

Recognition of the lives we build anyway. Recognition of the courage it takes to keep beginning again. Recognition of the communities military spouses create in borrowed houses, temporary neighborhoods, unfamiliar duty stations, and all the in-between places we spend our lives learning to love.