Strong & True

Even though my soldier enlisted a year ago, he was in the delayed entry program and he finally went to OSUT training 6 months ago. Sometimes it seems like it has been years, and then again it seems like it was only yesterday. We still have 4.5 years to go and I know that those years are going to be the best, the hardest, the most beautiful and the most memorable years of our lives. We knew when we signed up for this that it wouldn't be easy, but we are ready for that; and I can tell you that the last 6 months, despite the fact that we had little to no contact and despite the fact that we were thousands of miles apart, we are already stronger and deeper in love. Being apart and still being so in love, we realized that what we have is rare, it's beautiful and it is strong. Not everyone has it, but everyone we come across is in awe of it. We are blessed and fortunate. It is once in a lifetime. We are once in a lifetime. Best friends. Greg and I have been together for 8 years...we were 18 and we feel madly and deeply in love. It's never been another way for us. We have had our rough times...times that were deep and dark and we weren't sure what would happen, but those just made us stronger and helped us realize that we never want to lose one another. So these next 5 years we are ready. We are ready for what lies ahead-the adventures, the separations, the reunions, the beautiful small moments that last forever, the sad times, the hard times and most of all the times were we just melt into each other's arms and let the world fade away. We will make it. We will be stronger in the end. And we will never ever compromise what we have.