Easing the Heartache

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Netroots For The Troops 2010:
Our primary goal with NFTT is assembling Care Packages at Netroots Nation. However, occasionally there arises a need beyond those deployed. Maybe a veteran and his family caught between a need and red tape. llbear et al has shown us several times this year. So as we rises funds this year keep in mind that your donation may very well be helping a veteran in need here at home or help those deployed feel they're remembered here at home.
(more info at this link: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/3/203529/745

How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness everywhere!
~ William Shakespeare, Sonnet XCVII

noweasels's diary :: ::
In war, there are many uncertainties. One thing that is not uncertain is deployment.

As cadets, you volunteered for service during this time of danger. Some of you fought in Afghanistan. Some of you will deploy there.

Most of all, I know that this decision asks even more of you -- a military that, along with your families, has already borne the heaviest of all burdens. As President, I have signed a letter of condolence to the family of each American who gives their life in these wars. I have read the letters from the parents and spouses of those who deployed.
~ President Barack Obama, December 1, 2009

For each family with a loved one called upon to serve, the hour of deployment is heartbreaking.

Where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Homesick in Heaven

Half of my heart is deployed.
~ Author Unknown

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.
~ Emily Dickinson, Parting

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
~ Lamartine

What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
~ Frances Anne Kemble

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
~ Edna St Vincent Millay

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
~ Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

You can make the deployments of our soldiers, sailors, Marines, Airmen and National Guard a little less lonely. You can remind their families that they are not alone. You can do this by making a donation tonight to Netroots for the Troops.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Info on NFTT: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/3/203529/745

*sigh*

But the goodbye always comes at last,
Goodbyes always come too fast,
They come too fast
But they past too slow,
I love you, and that's all I know.
~Jimmy Webb (edit:goodbye for ending)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. These are so beautiful...

K&R

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