Friday, December 19, 2008

Why Are Military Families So Poor?

I just saw a Sears commercial online with Ty Pennington (of Extreme Makeover fame) announcing that some military families were having to worry about if their child or children would have a warm winter coat to wear while their parent was overseas fighting for this country.

WHY on earth should military families, who give SO much, especially the Marines and Army branches, have to worry about not being able to provide for their families? Being former military myself, and then being a stay-at-home mom married to a military husband, I can tell you that even with the housing allowance we didn't have much to live off of...and we only had one child.

My heart goes out to these families and I implore the government...Why aren't the members of our armed forces, who are sacrificing months and years of their time, and sometimes their own lives, being paid a fair wage?

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