by Mitja on August 16, 2011
Elysia arrived safe and sound in California after her third flight across the Pacific Ocean in a month. I have to admit that when I heard she would spend several days being processed at Naval Base San Diego, I thought of Arlo Guthrie being drafted for Vietnam only to be found unfit for the military [...]
by Mitja on February 1, 2010
The Army War College released new research last week examining the effects of multiple deployments on adolescents. The report confirms several of the well-known coping mechanisms used by military families dealing with deployments — keep busy! — but there were some interesting findings as well. They found that the largest factors that help children cope with [...]