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    The Day After He Left for Iraq: A Story of Love, Family, & Reunion

    By Melissa Seligman

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    About this ebook

    In this heartfelt and candidly honest memoir, a military wife recounts life at home with two young children while her husband goes off to war.

    We feel for the men and women who are risking their lives at war, but what of the families they’ve left behind? In gorgeous prose, a military wife describes a year in her family’s life—a year in which her husband leaves for war, returns home, and prepares again to leave.

    When her husband ships out to Iraq, Melissa Seligman’s son is a newborn, and her daughter is a toddler. Starting with that day, and focusing on the months that follow, she movingly describes the balancing act her life becomes: being a loving mother to her young children, with the haunting knowledge that her husband, their father, could be killed at any time.

    Seligman doesn’t hesitate to express her inner pain. She watches her daughter acting out in fury. Then there’s her own anger. Ultimately, though, she comes to accept her life and appreciate the strength and determination of her loving children and husband.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateOct 17, 2008
    ISBN9781628732061
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