A military life has always been hard on marriages, it is no secret.  A military spouse accepts the hardships or doesn't.  Even if there is no war it creates hardship, but that is what the men and women signed up knew or should have known about.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

... how very Jerry Springer ... how very Montel Williams.

Tabloid journalism worth it's weight in rhino cr_p.

Having lived in Minnesota and witnessed first-hand, the far-left proclivities of the Star-Tribune, this doesn't surprise me in the least.

As for your assumption, Warner, that their intent is to show that the military is hard on women so as to show
the military in a bad light, I would take it a step further.

Their intent may be to eventually suggest that married women in the military should get special treatment in assignnents, deployments, and who knows what else, especially if they have children.

It's SOP for liberals: claim that women can, and should be allowed to, do everything men can do. Then turn around and demand the special "adjustments" needed to make them "equal," and the special considerations to enable them to "have it all." In short: to have whatever they want, when they want it.

That's why the Navy coined the phrase: Navy Wife: The toughest job in the Navy. It takes a special woman to hold down the fort while her Sailor is away aboard ship for 6-8 months at a stretch. Some women can hack it, some can't. Heck, some men can't hack the Navy either. Not all Sailors are angels, but neither are all Navy wives saintly. I should know, I counseled enough of both during 27 years on active duty.

Why doesn't the Star-Trib interview a few dozen Command Master Chiefs? These high-achieving men and women will tell the unvarnished truth about military marriages; but then, the truth is what the Minnesota rag is afraid of and doesn't want to hear. Selective reporting: what a concept.

I think the S'Tribe should interview all the men and women who were divorced while serving for up to four years during WWII. How many men and women received Dear John and Dear Jane letters in those days? The upside down stamps weren't put on by mistake. The same with the Vietnam War, the Korean War, Ect. Ect. Ect. Isn't that what balanced reporting is all about?

I also want to hear from all the men and women reporters who had their marriages affected by lenghty overseas assignments that were forced upon them by the evil corporatist media conglomerates (I hope I'm not violating a Liberal Trademark!) like the former owners of the Star and Tribune. How many marriages has the McClatchy family ruined in the last several decades? The public has a right to know!

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wizardjr - I hear you loud and clear. I live next to "The People's Republic Of Minnesotastan" and I know what kind of leftist propaganda the Minneapolis RED Star/Tribune puts out.

 It was with their help that Keith Ellingson was elected to congress and I assume it will be with their assistance that Al "Raving Mad Liberal" Frankin will unseat incumbant Republican Norm Coleman in 2008.

I don't would waste a penny buying this midwest version of Pravda. If I had a talking bird in a cage and I lined it with this leftist rag within a week the bird would be saying "Awwwk, Comrade wants a government handout, Comrade wants a government handout, Awwwk"

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