Because I know that some of the hardest days of war were the moments you missed back home -- the birthdays, the anniversaries, when your little girlorboy took their first wobbly steps.
And one of the ways I tell a story is in 2002, 2003, if you were a 10-year-old boyorgirl and your mom or dad - mostly dads - were in one of these units that deployed frequently - we're in our fourth or fifth major deployment and most of them have been a year or longer.