First Entry

Wow...wandered onto the Google search engine and in my rambling have found this. Interesting. Was unaware Google was so interested in my odd little thoughts.

Hubby and I have been asked to do an interview. Will get into why later. It's been roughly 7 months since we did the last one and, though it went well, I am more than slightly uneasy with the prospect of more. The paper wants to fly the reporter and a photographer in from Boston. They want a "feel for our daily life." Why? I have asked my family. Total dissidence. Mom says we have an obligation, well, she didn't really say obligation. Let me try again. Mom says we should share our story so other people can understand. I feel, to put it kindly, that there have been enough articles and enough pictures and enough intrusions into our daily life and the public is probably more understanding of that than newspaper reporters would like to admit.

Suppose I should back up. Last year my husband was seriously wounded overseas serving the US Army. He's undergone more medical treatments, surgery, physical therapy, etc than you can shake a stick at. We've met A LOT of people. Some very important people. And talked to several reporters. We turned most away so my husband could have some privacy and dignity. We saw other families in similar situations embrace, heck, invite the press. We ran them off vehemently.

And yet, a year later, they come back!?! Persistent to the end I suppose.

In the end, my guy and I will have to decide together. I want nothing to do with it. But he feels he should at least hear the reporter out.

I know I have left out a lot of details, but the families of other wounded servicepeople will understand why. He is my first concern and not the scoop of some paper. We'll see. G'night.