Susanna B. reviewed Heroes at Home: Help and Hope for America's Military Families on + 3 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I found this hard to get through simply because the air force and army life experiences right now are taking such different courses. I know air force deployes too...but as an army wife I just couldn't get over the differences. So if you're an air force wife, this is probably your book, army wives...might want to keep looking elsewhere.
Melanie (MELNELYNN) reviewed Heroes at Home: Help and Hope for America's Military Families on + 669 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This book is a wonderful tribute to all the things that can happen during a deployment. It's a humorous approach to life as we know it in the military. Deployments come and go, it's how we survive them that tells us who we are!
Ms. Kay's book is not a protocol manual on what steps to take at a spouse coffee nor lists the hierarchy of a Family Readiness Group. It IS a book that helps families cope with the everyday life and mishaps that arise during deployment or periods of spearation. It is helpful to hear how others have gone before you, and to know that you are not in this alone.
I found this book to be a great shoulder to lean on, a confidante, and recommended it to my battalion spouses. The idea that "this, too, shall pass" makes me feel that we can always endure more than what we think we can. Deployments are not designed to make spouses stronger, that's just the unintended benefit.
Ms. Kay's book is not a protocol manual on what steps to take at a spouse coffee nor lists the hierarchy of a Family Readiness Group. It IS a book that helps families cope with the everyday life and mishaps that arise during deployment or periods of spearation. It is helpful to hear how others have gone before you, and to know that you are not in this alone.
I found this book to be a great shoulder to lean on, a confidante, and recommended it to my battalion spouses. The idea that "this, too, shall pass" makes me feel that we can always endure more than what we think we can. Deployments are not designed to make spouses stronger, that's just the unintended benefit.
