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Drafted into Challenge

September 18, 2018 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

20 years ago, I woke up to a screaming drill instructor, chaos, mind games, and effectively running everywhere I went.  I lived in a green uniform, seeing no other colors but black, green, and brown for months. I swam in 10 foot deep water with 120 pounds of gear, went 3 days and 48 miles of marching on 4 hours of total sleep (and one meal).  I…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Emotions, Military Widowed, Widowed by Illness Tagged With: widower with children, grief, Mourning, military, Cystic Fibrosis, challenge, difficulty, widower, Long Term Illness, Mike Welker

Semper Fidelis

May 29, 2018 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Yesterday was memorial day in the United States.  Every year, on the last Monday in May, we Americans fire up the grill, go to parades, ignite fireworks, buy red-white-and-blue everything, and celebrate the unofficial start of summer.  We hang our flags, complain about the heat, and have a drink or four to commemorate the day off from work.

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Military Widowed Tagged With: widower, Mike Welker, Holidays, military, honor, Marine Crops, Sergeant Jeanette Winters, Memorial Day, War

If What is Left, is This…then, yes~

March 13, 2018 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

As 5 years without you, edges its’ way ever nearer to me, and as my heart and soul hear the shuffle of time coming closer, creeping past, zooming closer, flying past.. As these ten thousand years have passed, since his death, as each nanosecond passes in the here and now, I remember how he loved me, how I loved him. I remember his calm spirit and…

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Military Widowed, Miscellaneous Tagged With: memories, love, anniversaries, military, honor, husband, dancing

15 Years Later

September 13, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Before I was a widower, father, husband, or IT manager, I was a Marine.  15 years ago, I was driving into my platoon’s shop, listening to Howard Stern, as I did every morning, when he suddenly stopped his usual schtick, and said that a plane had  hit the World Trade Center.  They bantered on a bit about it, and, at the time, no one really knew…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Military Widowed Tagged With: Allegories, widower, Mike Welker, remembering, military, September 11

This Air Force Widow….this FWG…and a Reunion~

July 20, 2016 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

Last Saturday I went to a reunion at the airbase in Jersey from which Chuck retired.  The reunion was made up of crew and maintainers of the C-141’s, the cargo plane that my husband flew on as a flight engineer.  That was before my time, but he spoke of those days, and, more so, the plane, often, in our years together.  He was so proud of…

Filed Under: Military Widowed Tagged With: T-tail Mafia, McGuire AFB, flight crew, flight engineer, military, military widow, C-141, cargo plane, Joint Base MDL, New Jersey, reunion

On Living an Unconventional Life~

May 4, 2016 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

I have a difficult time defining my life to myself since Chuck died, never mind anyone else. Not that I need to explain it to anyone, but, holy shit, does it come up in conversation. Not just this widowhood, but my lifestyle. I full-time on the road, as many of you know.  In the last year I’ve taken more time off the road than I ordinarily would…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Military Widowed, Miscellaneous Tagged With: unconventional lifestyle, PinkMagic, [email protected] Teardrop trailer, Where Womyn Gather, festivals, Team Rubicon USA, widow, veterans, love, PA, grief, Arkansas, military, volunteerism, cross-country, disaster response, Odyssey of Love

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